| When you work
with TTG Services you work only with me and my local associates, not a
subcontractor in Eastern Europe or Asia. So it is fair you know
something about me �
Number one, I am an engineer, not a
code-cutter. Making a useful program is not at all like
routinely hanging sheet rock, it is more like building a complex
cathedral.
I believe above all in program design,
and that good design comes from getting you, the client, to
talk about your needs.
Needs well understood lead to a program design that is effective. Only
with a clear and complete design in hand does it make sense to assemble
objects, tables and lines of code into a database application.
The past dozen years I have been designing and
developing database applications (using Microsoft Access/Visual Basic
and SQL Server, and Corel Paradox) for a
wide variety of organizations, both for-profit and
not-for-profit, usually small to medium sized. These applications have
been used (and still are) in a wide variety of businesses and services.
They have been from scratch,or major improvements, or
platform-changes (e.g., DOS to Windows, and Paradox to SQL Server or
Access).
But I didn't just suddenly start designing and
developing databases. During my earlier years in the computer industry
I successively managed a computer manufacturer's R and D,
worked as a sales engineer, managed tech support for a wholesaler, and
was general manager for a "solutions provider" (also called a
"VAR"). The benefit to my clients is I have an overall
picture how an application fits into a complete computer system, and
how to deal with other types of computer professionals effectively.
I also draw on unique listening, reasoning, and
presentation skills I developed in the 12 years I spent as a trial
attorney. I can discuss my ideas and advice with non-technical people
in terms that they find easy to understand and apply. Most important,
those 12 years as a lawyer put me in direct daily contact with the
owners and managers of all sorts of businesses and organizations. They
taught me how to quickly and thoroughly understand how information
flows through an organization, how to make that information gather and
flow most efficiently, and how to use the information to make your
organization function at its best.
Finally, when there are special additional features
you need to work in connection with your database, I draw on the many
colleagues I have met and been able to evaluate in my years in the
computer industry - for a complete solution.
Doesn't
this cost a lot more?
When you buy custom software, you do need to be
cost conscious. Using the Design-first process, the cost will
be in line with helter-skelter development. Frequently the eventual
cost is lower.
Development without design likely will produce
false starts and blind alleys, which are costly to both developer and
customer, both in dollars and delivery date. An application
that just grows may well result in more cost in these ways:
The product that works so badly that it gets abandoned after a couple
months. It gets replaced by another
custom application or by a commercial package that doesn't really do
what you want but works. That means you end up
paying twice. Or it should have been put on a
closet shelf, but wasn't because of the investment and
drives users nuts for years, costing extra time to use and get around
the problems. Either way, you are paying extra.
When you engage TTG Services to Design,
Then Develop, your investment is safe.
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