At Highbrow, we deploy a three-point manifesto for development practices – Verification, Flexibility and Just-sufficiency. These ensure that not only that the development takes place with planned out end objectives in focus, but also helps us deliver the project within the time schedule forecasted at the beginning of the project.

Each application or software development project we undertake undergoes through four meticulously planned out review stages:

All our projects are managed and reviewed periodically with easy, regular visibility windows in terms of outstanding tasks, budget and risk factors that influence the project externally. A standard project mechanism ensures that all necessary variable factors are complied with even at the developmental level.

On a micro level, each project that is undertaken by Highbrow goes through close scrutiny from peers even at the design and development stages. This review ensures that quality is upheld and enables us impart and transfer new skills, techniques and ideas across the workforce.

A standard testing framework simplifies the whole coding process and self-verifies its own correctness. This framework enables us not only to ensure minimum de-bugging time schedule but also allows us to evolve our designs organically with changing client-needs without introducing refactoring measures or regression errors.

A set of compact yet comprehensive Quality Assurance practices and team ensures that the developed team is robust and scalable apart from just meeting the client’s present business objectives. We also introduce a sufficient buffer time to enable us incorporate changes in the development framework, should the need arise at a critical juncture of a project.

Apart from a basic core set of practices that ink out the coding style, source management, bug tracking and consistent release procedures, at Highbrow we forecast and document the level of methodological “heaviness” and factor it to the specifics of each project and its business objectives. We clinically weigh the pros and cons of committing to a heavy design upfront versus using an iterative, evolutionary design approach.

As the guiding force behind the development methodology at Highbrow, Just-sufficiency enables us to maintain a fine balance between documentation and implementation. Like for example, a project that expends too much effort on documenting the design and code might overshoot the time schedules. Whereas a project that expends little effort on this might affect the success of maintenance programmers in the future, who might have to expend more time reverse-engineering the project just to comprehend the development methodology. At Highbrow, we walk the thin line that demarcates these two crucial requirements.

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