Perhaps you've never had a software project go as well as your first Adaption project. We really listen to you - on the first day, and every day. Every two weeks you get the next set of agreed-upon features. Every nightly build is virtually defect-free. Your project makes orderly, measurable progress toward success.

Like many shops, we are diversely experienced in Java/J2EE, C++, and other object-oriented languages, and we use a number of networking, web, database, and middleware technologies. But these days, technology expertise is nothing special. It's the price of admission in this business.

What makes us special is our ability to consistently deliver demonstrable business value: the features that pay back your investment fastest, delivered in defect-free chunks every two weeks; automated tests that prove that we are getting it right as we go. The system you need, at the price we specified, completed by your deadline. In other words, project success.

Your software requirements are changing all the time - for good business reasons. Sometimes users change their minds about how a system component should really work. When these requirements changes occur in the middle of a project, you need your development team to be able to handle them without derailing the project. No problem. We turn on a dime when you need us to.

The cold business reality is that software systems need to be amenable to drastic, arbitrary, continual change. So the key to a long healthy system lifespan is its continued extensibility - its "softness."

This is more difficult to accomplish than you might think. Most software that has been around for more than a few weeks is rigid, fragile, opaque, viscous -- hard to change. And each new change or extension to such code gets harder to accomplish. Sooner than you planned, you have to scrap the system altogether. At Adaption we keep our code truly soft at all times.

Extensibility requires a high level of software craftsmanship. Agile methods like Extreme Programming are vitally necessary to this, but they are not sufficient per se. You also need a deep understanding of the object-oriented design principles and patterns that make arbitrary extensibility possible. Finally, this comes down to a deep and seasoned appreciation of quality and craft.

To find out how we can use high craft to produce better systems for you on-time and within budget, contact us.