80% of IT projects fail completely, are delivered too late, cost too much or lack required functionality. This means that the chance of a project failing to deliver is high, unacceptably high, in fact. Nevertheless, many organizations do not take any measures to increase the chances of a project becoming successful.
Application Technical Audits
Xebia can help to increase the overall quality of your projects and save you money by providing four types of audit. Each of these is tailored to a specific phase of a project. Together, they cover the full project life cycle. Also, each of the audit types can be customized to your requirements. During a project, one or more type/s of audit can be used to target specific areas of interest.
Benefits of Auditing
Discovering and correcting issues in time improves the overall quality of a project and saves money in both the short and long term. In the short term, because issues discovered while projects are under development can be corrected immediately. This increases the chances of the project becoming a success. And it saves money, because expensive reworking later on during the project is avoided. In the long run, discovering recurring issues within projects and finding solutions to them also helps avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. This increases the quality of the work done across projects and saves a lot of money.
Wealth of Experience
Xebia has a wealth of experience in auditing large and complex environments based on J2EE, XML and integration technology. We use a generalist/specialist approach backed up by a QA consultant. The generalist focuses on the functional details (requirements, functionality, architecture, structure) and has overall responsibility for the audit. The specialist focuses on the technical details of an audit (technology, code, check lists, best practices). Generalist and specialist share the same technical background, making it possible to work efficiently and in support of each other. The QA consultant is an experienced auditor who can be consulted during the audit and performs peer reviews on audit deliverables.
