SciBit offers a complete range of services for project life cycle management and development. These services include:

• Project/Product Design
• Project Management & Hosting
• Research & Development
• Technical & User Documentation Development & Integration
• Technical & User Training
• Project/Product Support

Our own development teams have decades of combined experience in the following fields:

• Firmware: PLM, C, ASM
• Software: Delphi, Kylix, VB, PHP, ASP, Java, C#, C++, Eclipse
• Platforms/Technologies: Win32, MySQL, Interbase, MS SQL, .NET, ASP.NET, ECO, SOAP, XML, XForms, Webservices , CAD (Solid Edge/AutoCAD), P&ID
• OS: Dos, Win16, Win32, Win64, Linux, various embedded platforms
• Hardware: 8031/51/52 Microcontrollers, Intel/AMD Microprocessor platforms

Should your project require additional and/or other specialized skills, these would be sourced on your behalf for the duration of the project on a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) basis. This process can either be managed by SciBit, giving you a one-stop-service, or by you and/or your company.

Procedure

Following is a rough description of the project life-cycle procedure:

1. Firstly, you should compile a rough specification of your project/product/concept and submit it to SciBit for approval and a quotation for parts of, or the whole project cycle, depending on your needs. Should the project involve IP (Intellectual Property) rights, can this step optionally be preceded and protected by an NDA between you (or your company) and SciBit.
2. After the project has been approved and the subsequent quote accepted, the project enters the normal software development cycle. In draft, these include:
   1. Project Establishment
      • Project Preparation
        • Receive requirements
        • Analyze requirements
        • Compile and submit Project Brief
      • Project Initiation
        • Compilation of PIR (Project Initiation Report)
        • Submit PIR for QA & Approval
      • Project Definition
        • Optional Workshops held
        • Optional Alternative Analysis
        • Compile PDR (Project Definition Report)
        • Compile Project Plan
        • Compile Risk Management Plane
        • Submit PDR for QA & Approval
        • Submit Project Specification
        • Submit Formal Quote for approval
   2. Project Execution
      • Prototyping/Proof of Concept Phase to ensure you get what you to pay for
      • Development and Alpha Testing Phase
      • Beta Testing
      • Technical Documentation
      • User Documentation
   3. Project Closure
      • Submit Project Closure Report
      • Compile Review Plan
      • Optional Priority Support
      • Optional user training
      • Project Signoff

Management

The project is managed and hosted online in real-time utilizing our projects website, from start to finish. The project management site provides for:

• Multiple companies collaboratively working on projects or autonomously
• Multiple projects managed per company, each allowing for:
  • Budget management
  • Actual vs Budgeted hours worked
  • Risk Management
  • Gantt charts
• Unlimited, multi hierarchical tasks per project, each allowing for:
  • Human and Physical Resource allocation
  • Milestones
  • Real-time logging of task work/hours
  • Task dependencies
  • History tracking, i.e. who did what and when
  • Budget management
  • Actual vs Budgeted hours worked
  • Risk Management
  • Gantt charts
• Uploading and downloading of project files, ex. source code, documentation, etc
• Automated email notifications on task slippage, due tasks and dependent tasks
• Check-In and Out of project files, i.e. auditing
• Events and Event tracking
• Shared and private calendars
• Shared and private contact lists
• Per project and task Help Desk for logging and auditing support requests, bugs, feature requests during testing phases and beyond.
• Shared and private forums
• Automated emailing/notification on updating of projects, tasks, events

Financial

As is obvious from the procedure, you will have an exact idea of the hours involved in the project by the time you receive your quotation. After quote acceptance, you will be prompted to buy project time on a weekly, monthly, milestone or complete project basis, as per the quotation's terms. The project and quotation will also provide for a retention percentage and period (usually 10% of the project's budget), which you are liable for once all the project/product deliverables have been accepted and signed off on.

Example

As an example, you may have a Project A which in total requires a 4 week critical path (i.e. total development cycle) and 500 man-hours. Your quote may typically look like this:

For this sample project, you will be able to purchase development time using our online facilities at a rate of $500 per day from the project initiation phase against the project's quoted budget. The final 10% retention is payable only after you took ownership of the project's deliverables. During the project cycle you can, with the help of the Project Manager (if you or your company does not provide a PM), monitor and ensure that your project's actual schedule is adhere to and that the project stays within budget and on schedule. Again, this can all be done using our online facility, which also provides for private and secure access to your project, 24/7.