Values

• Trust

  Where there is true trust, there is true cooperation. At Standing Wave, we believe in cutting through the conflict that delays, cripples, and sometimes kills projects.

  We trust that your goal is to develop useful software that has transformative impact on your business. Our primary objective on every project is to help you meet that goal. We trust you to not take us for a ride. We trust you to respect our knowledge, our business and our people. When we're working with you, we are going to trust you.

  We pledge to always align our efforts to your goals in the most efficient manner we know how. We pledge to constantly improve our processes and relationships in order to deliver the best services we can. We pledge to respect and honor the talents and expertise of your people, and to leverage those assets constantly to your advantage. We pledge to respect and honor our own people and to maintain an energized, stable team for your project. When you're working with us, you can trust us.

• Quality

  Quality is not a control variable. (Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained) Developing complex software is extremely risky business. We believe that maintaining high quality throughout the life-span of your software project is critical to the project's success. Skimping or taking shortcuts does not reduce the cost or the timeline of your project; the opposite is usually true.

  Maintaining high quality does not mean burying the team under unnecessarily detailed documentation, or using the most expensive components for every requirement. It means that the appropriate components are implemented the best way that they can be. It means that project artifacts and interactions meet the needs of the team and include the necessary information. It means that processes are tight enough to control complexity without putting a stranglehold on productivity.

  A high quality project delivers the maximum value for effort expended, and the deliverables remain valuable long after the initial development is over.

• Agility

  Planning is good - plan for change. We need project plans in order to set goals, organize our work and get ready for important events, but a project plan can only be as firm as the assumptions on which it is built. In software, the development process is one of constant creation and discovery. A software team needs to be able to take advantage of these discoveries as they come, and to be free to create new solutions that could not have been foreseen by the original plan.

  At Standing Wave, our teams use an agile development methodology to embrace change rather than fight it. Your custom software solution is always ready to adapt to the business opportunity just around the corner. New techniques and technologies can be leveraged when the time is right, not after you rewrite your entire application suite.

  Your business is not frozen in time - your software shouldn't be either.