FiberTrail offers the following services:

Market Analysis

Often startup companies start with a product idea and continue executing on it while the market dynamics change. We have found it worthwhile to reassess the marketplace and understand the market situation from a 3^rd party perspective. In addition, we assist companies in making build vs. buy decisions for new product lines. 

FiberTrail will conduct a comprehensive analysis that includes:

• SWOT Analysis
• ROM (Rough order of magnitude) time to market for new ideas
• Development of Business Model and Business Plan

Prototype development

FiberTrail’s experts have the ability to quickly turn your ideas into prototypes showcasing what is possible.  Why build a prototype before committing resources to a full development schedule?

• Prototyping allows for early interaction and feedback from customers, management, and investors.  This helps find holes in the design that can be addressed before the product has been completed.
• Prototyping allows developers to meet earlier production schedules by starting with a skeleton of the final program.  Studies have shown that prototyping can reduce a program’s size and effort by as much as 40%.
• Prototyping allows for the determination of what is feasible.  Some proposed ideas might be infeasible because of technology, cost, or other factors.  The prototype may also demonstrate the ability to do things that no one had previously thought about.
• Prototyping speeds up the investment process.  Whether seeking external investment for a startup or internal approval for a business unit, a prototype shows that an idea is more than drawings on a napkin.  It shows the feasibility of the concept and garners support from investors and management.

Technical Architecture

Too many companies expect their developers to become technology experts overnight in areas such as database design, high-availability systems, distributed computing, and security to name a few.  Developer inexperience with systems leads to scalability, performance, and stability issues with the product architecture.  Refactoring the architecture as problems are discovered leads to longer than necessary development schedules, delays, poor team morale, and complete failure of the project in many cases.

FiberTrail has experts in a wide range of applications, programming languages, operating systems, and technologies.  These experts will ensure that you minimize costly mistakes.  These experts work together to provide customers with a detailed plan of how to build the product.  This plan can then be given to a customer’s development team for implementation, or FiberTrail’s development team for rapid development and testing.

Project Management

Developing products requires interaction between members of a team as well as with external vendors. Very often, developers are aggressive in promising features and products. FiberTrail’s project management methodologies utilizing Scrumworks ensures accountability as well as rapid development.

FiberTrail’s methodology also provides transparency throughout the process so that management is not surprised by the outcome of a project. This is critical for a number of reasons:

• Marketing needs to be planned when the product is truly ready. If marketing is done very early, then customers are unhappy that the product is not available. If it is too late, then you waste valuable time while competitors capture mindshare and market share.
• Sales has the necessary information to talk intelligently to customers.
• Support is ready to answer any issues or questions customers may have about the product.
• IT is ready with any necessary hardware, websites, domains, e-mail addresses, etc.
• QA is ready to begin testing components as they are available.
• Development stays on track and any slips are promptly communicated to all other groups.

Interim Executive Services

Provide services at the CEO, CTO or VP Engineering level for startup companies. FiberTrail executives will help companies that have lost an executive and teams are floundering because of a lack of leadership. FiberTrail will work to recruit a replacement executive and keep the company on track.

Software Development

FiberTrail has experts in a wide range of languages, operating systems, applications, and technologies.  We employ only the best and the brightest to ensure rapid development of quality code.  Code is put through a rigorous quality assurance process into which customers have complete visibility.

We will bring a product to market rapidly using internal as well as outsourced resources.

Build Offshore development teams

Globalization is no longer a “nice to have.” However, most companies do not have the experience to be successful in their first attempt. FiberTrail can help companies in building and managing offshore development teams.