At Unicis, our development process is the backbone of creating secure and compliant solutions. This section outlines our methodology, team structure, and best practices to ensure our products meet the highest standards.

Agile, but not limited to and not strictly by the book.

Iterative, incremental, and evolutionary

Efficient and face-to-face communication

Very short feedback loop and adaptation cycle

Quality focus

Project Planning

Roadmapping

Sprint Planning

Code Review and Quality Assurance

Code Review

Testing

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

CI/CD Pipeline

Our stack includes Development Tools: Version control, project management, team communication, IDE’s.

CI/CD Tools:

Our organization has a lot of different needs and audiences. Internally, we maintain comprehensive technical documentation that is specifically tailored for developers, ensuring clarity and guidance throughout the development process. For end-users, we offer user-friendly guides and manuals that simplify product understanding and usage. Our API documentation is comprehensive, ensuring seamless integration with third-party developers. To ensure quality, we prioritize regular updates and thorough reviews, ensuring all documentation remains current, accurate, and valuable to our stakeholders and users alike.

Adhering to consistent coding practices is fundamental in maintaining code quality and readability across our development teams. By following established guidelines and conventions, we ensure that our codebase is cohesive, maintainable, and easy to collaborate on.

Security is paramount in safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Implementing robust security measures, such as encryption protocols, access controls, and regular security audits, helps mitigate risks and protect our systems from potential vulnerabilities.

Optimizing performance involves employing techniques like code refactoring, caching strategies, and efficient algorithms to enhance system responsiveness and resource utilization. By continually monitoring and optimizing our applications, we strive to deliver optimal user experiences and reduce operational costs.

Ensuring scalability involves designing our systems to handle increasing workloads and user demands without compromising performance or reliability. Through scalable architecture patterns, load testing, and cloud infrastructure management, we prepare our products to grow seamlessly as our user base expands.

For further best practices, we adhere to the principles outlined in the 12 Factor App methodology which guides our approach to building modern, scalable applications. Moreover, we implement the principles of the Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP) framework to prioritize essential security measures from the earliest stages of product development.

We prioritize comprehensive processes for integrating new developers into our team, ensuring they receive the necessary resources, training, and introductions to our workflows and tools.

Continued education and skill enhancement are facilitated through ongoing training programs that cover emerging technologies, industry best practices, and specialized areas relevant to our team’s goals and projects.

We foster a collaborative environment by actively encouraging information exchange among team members. This includes regular meetings, workshops, and platforms for sharing insights, experiences, and solutions.

To maintain alignment with user expectations and stakeholder needs, we employ robust mechanisms for collecting and analyzing feedback through surveys, usability tests, and direct interactions with users.

Feedback loops are integral to our development process, enabling us to iteratively update and improve our products. We prioritize actioning feedback promptly to address issues, refine features, and enhance overall user satisfaction.

We are committed to ongoing refinement of our processes and products. Through retrospectives, metrics analysis, and proactive problem-solving, we strive to achieve continuous improvement in efficiency, quality, and customer value.

Staying ahead of industry trends and regulatory changes is essential. We invest in monitoring and analyzing market shifts, technological advancements, and evolving user expectations to anticipate and adapt to future demands.

Exploration and adoption of innovative tools and frameworks are actively encouraged to enhance our technical capabilities and maintain competitiveness in the market. We evaluate new technologies through proofs of concept and pilot projects.

We nurture a culture of innovation by empowering team members to propose and experiment with new ideas. This includes dedicated time for research and development, cross-functional collaboration, and recognition of innovative contributions.