Services

Hyperhound designs and builds high-quality custom software. We welcome the opportunity to create the software that you have envisioned. We can design and build stand-alone products, or we can work in partnership with your software engineers to design, build, and integrate components for your project.

We offer the following software-development services:

More Than Implementation

There is more to building high-quality software than coding, testing, and debugging. Our most valuable service to our clients is that we plan the software that we build. We design first, and construct second. Our expertise in sorting out requirements and in creating superior software architectures sets us apart from other developers.

A software project’s success or failure is usually determined before any coding begins. Early in the project lifecycle, during the requirements and architectural stages, is when great software is born. Project cost and schedule are most affected by these planning stages. By the time you get to implementation, the cost in time and money to fix requirements and architectural mistakes goes up dramatically, and often prohibitively. A good way to ensure software project failure is to start out with vague objectives or a poor design.

Requirements Development

Requirements development is the process of arriving at a clear answer to the question: What is the software required to do in order to achieve our business goals? Requirements development identifies the problem that the new software is expected to solve. The broad strokes of the requirements define a shared vision for all project participants. The fine strokes of the requirements define a set of features that the software architecture must cover.

You may come to us with a thorough understanding of the new software you want, and a guiding set of requirements. We will take your requirements and begin high-level design work. Just as likely, you may come to us with a concept or a problem statement. We will work closely with you to develop your idea, and to specify and refine your requirements for the new software.

Architectural Design

Architectural design is the process of arriving at a clear answer to the question: How is the software going to do what your requirements say it should? The purpose of architectural design is to find the most appropriate technical solution to the problem that the software is expected to solve.

At Hyperhound, we pride ourselves on our skill at creating simple and extensible software architectures. We strive to design the simplest architecture that satisfies your requirements. We believe an architecture should be easy to understand and should be flexible. An architecture that has both these qualities will provide a firm foundation for maintenance and enhancement as new requirements arise in the future.