| Kring has a fully functional development centre at Gurgaon,
India. The development centre is a secure facility with restricted
access and complete power back-up facilities. Kring is maintaining
a 24 X 7 structured network with branded servers & development
machines, RAID-5 data back-up, secure firewall, scalable Internet
bandwidth and licensed software development environment. Kring
offers 100% offshore development services, where all the steps
of the SDLC, right from initial requirement analysis to project
initiation, design, development, testing and overall project
management are accomplished at Kring’s India development
centre. However, depending upon project dynamics, certain
steps of the SDLC like initial requirement analysis, final
delivery and end-user training can also be performed at client
sites.
Kring firmly believes that effective communication between
the clients’ and the development partner is must for
the success of any project be it onsite, offshore or onsite/offshore.
Another important criterion is the involvement of clients’
in the development life cycle.
The need for effective communication and client involvement
becomes more pronounced in case of offshore and onsite/offshore
development. Kring strongly encourages its clients’
to be a part of the offshore development team during the early
stages of the project.
Kring has put in place an effective mechanism to ensure seamless
communication between the client and Kring’s offshore
development team.
- Kring uses MS Project, Project Central and Share Point
Portal Server based Project Management Application. The
MS Project server is used for internal project management,
the clients’ are provided with a login area, for them
to monitor the project progress in real-time.
- Kring manages the communication between the client and
offshore team using multiple methods like VoIP & IP
Phones, E-mail, IM and Audio-Video Conferencing.
- Kring has comprehensive Risk Management, Change Management
and Version Control processes to effectively manage offshore
projects.
- Kring follows the use-case based or design-based iterative
‘Prototyping’ approach, where clients’
functional requirements are translated into ‘look
and feel’ prototypes and modules, before freezing
the project scope and proceeding with the development.
- Kring follows ISO 9000/SEI CMM benchmark quality standards
in development life cycle, project management and documentation.
With KRING’s offshore development, its clients
benefit from Kring’s available skill pool, quality processes
and 70-80% savings on cost of development.
Prototyping
Kring creates templates & prototypes along with the UML
Class diagrams on the basis of the client requirements &
preliminary discussions. The templates & prototypes cater
for GUI Design, ‘look & feel’, Form layouts,
logical flow of functionality, database design, etc. These
templates & prototypes are submitted to the clients, for
any changes, else approval. The iterations continue till requirements
are finalized.
Kring also creates an intuitive and comprehensive look &
feel presentation of the finalized prototype, to explain the
exact application/module functioning and workflow to the clients.
The final presentation is done to ensure that clients’
business users have a visual experience & feel of the
desired application/module, which helps in the better understanding
of the exact functionality & any changes that can improve
the user-friendliness of the desired application/module in
an integrated environment.
Partner ODCs
Kring also sets Partner Offshore Development Centres (ODC)
for its clients, where Kring enters into long-term offshore
development associations with its clients.
Kring establishes and manages an ODC, which specifically
caters to individual client’s requirements, in terms
of technical skill pool, processes, project management and
infrastructure.
Depending upon client requirements, Kring establishes an
ODC infrastructure within its existing premises or separately,
with hardware, software, network & bandwidth, requisite
technical skills and project management tools.
The clients’ can involve themselves in the Project
Management by being a part of their ODC at Kring – India
or can remotely do the Project Management using Kring’
Project Management tools.
With Partner ODCs, the clients benefit from dedicated
development services in the technology areas of their choice,
tailored project management, cost savings…without any
substantial up-front cost or investments. |