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At Skychute, although we are pretty flexible and able to adapt to the methodology that works best with the client, we believe that getting to market faster and improving products in small and quick iterations will help clients to quickly understand where to be successful and pivot before failing. But we understand that sometimes a quick waterfall approach works for well-understood problems, other times we need to go out wide and explore everything and sometimes something in between. We fit our process to the problem to achieve the best results we can.
For some projects, we might need to spend some time to estimate the whole project and then split it into releases and get the plan from there. In some circumstances, we would be driven by the time or budget they have and then match the scope and delivery timeline to that. Mostly depends on the type of process and adopted methodology.
Skychute has the unique ability to speak across both of these industries because of its history, experience and success in both. Our goal is to create better property experiences with technology, bring technology and innovation into the property business, help our clients build, launch and improve tech products.
Kicking off any project should always start with Why. Why the project exists and what problem it is solving. The steps projects go through vary depending on the stage they are in and the type of business.
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By spending more time understanding the needs of people and having great empathy for the users we can quickly design solutions. We are an agency that starts with significant domain knowledge and so our research and hypotheses testing is faster, more accurate and gets us to the solution faster.
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For clients willing to review their current business model and have our specialised advice on the business strategy, Skychute management and analysts partner with shareholders and senior management to dive into their business model and strategy.
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Once we understand the problem well, it is important to ensure there is sufficient benefit in solving it and that the costs to do so are realistic. We call this the feasibility stage. This is when our management team, engineers and UX designers work with stakeholders and client teams in order to understand the existing business processes, current issues and opportunities.
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With an approved budget our execution skills come to the fore. Our collaborative design and engineering teams along with client project /product managers, business analysts and stakeholders, will explore the problem deeply, ideate with you and present potential solutions as clickable prototypes. These are 3D model equivalents of architecture - A low cost, a high-fidelity tool which can be used to validate or optimize the solution.
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While our design team focuses on the interfaces and overall user experience, our engineering team will be designing a best in class, scalable back-end solution that will support you from launch to maturity and cost-effective throughout.
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As your project approaches launch our dedicated launch team will take over providing design QA, migration, deployment, marketing and sales advice to make sure your product is a success at launch and beyond.
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After launch, we are here to support you with product improvements, maintenance, further research and thought leadership. At this stage our product manager, analysts and engineers will work closely with project managers and stakeholders to ensure the best possible results after the product goes live.
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Once the product is launched, we might help our clients to build their own engineering team and manage the transition. Potentially, we can also up-skill the existing tech team to meet the requirements for product development, giving clients the opportunity to continue their journey independently.
