Properly Sorted enjoys the iterative method by which business challenges become powerful, profitable solutions. And we know that effective collaboration between client and developer is absolutely essential to creating business-changing tools. Over the course of building more than a hundred database software solutions, Properly Sorted has established and refined a proven, people-oriented methodology that consistently meets our clients' goals.

• Initial meeting in which Properly Sorted aims to gain a clear understanding of the project's business objectives
• Preliminary brief, a short document we prepare that outlines broad requirements, and a rough timeline and budget for the development cycle
• In-depth requirements phase, commencing upon client acceptance of our preliminary plan, a period of careful requirements gathering, at the end of which we write a detailed plan optimized for timeline and budget

Understanding our clients' needs and workflows deeply is what enables us to build software that accomplishes tasks in the best possible way while leveraging technologies that yield the most performance for the least cost.

• Design, during which we are in constant contact with the client, typically with weekly meetings to review progress and fine-tune requirements
• Build, when the agreed-upon design is coded, tested and launched

We are well aware that within a development cycle, clients may change some requirements, and remove or add specifications, so our process is designed to accommodate some adjustments. We can easily modify features and timelines to meet shifting objectives.

• Maintenance and training, a variety of one-time or ongoing services, depending on the needs of the particular project, and the capabilities and capacity of the internal IT resources of our client

In some cases, we agree to be available 24/7, and assume all database administration responsibilities. Other times, we share duties with client IT staff, provide certain services on a routine basis (such as data refreshes, custom reports and analysis) or collaborate only when needed. We are as involved as our clients want us to be.