Step 3 · Delivery

Delivery in stages: how does software come about without project risk?

Stage 1 is your MVP: the most important process, fully usable. Every further stage is a build-out that your people can work with right away. After every stage you decide anew: exit possible at any time, with no loose ends. And the source code belongs to you.

Start Stage 1 How a stage works

Who is the stage model for?

For companies with no appetite for mammoth projects.

Software projects have a bad reputation: too late, too expensive, and in the end it does not fit anyway. The stage model turns the logic around. It is for you if you recognize at least one of these sentences:

“We have burned our fingers on a fixed-price project before.”
“I do not want to wait two years until everything is finally finished.”
“Our people should work with the software early, not only at the end.”
“I want to be able to decide after every step whether it goes on.”

What you get

Four promises that every stage keeps.

Stage 1 = your MVP

The most important process in fully usable form, cut the way the Software Roadmap laid it down. Your people work with it while the next build-out stages are still being planned.

Usable build-out stages

Every stage ends with software that creates real benefit in everyday work. No interim states that are progress only on paper, and every piece of feedback flows into the next stage.

Exit after every stage

After every stage you decide anew whether it goes on. If you exit, no loose ends are left behind, but software that runs.

Your source code

The source code belongs to you, with no license fees to us and no dependency. Whether your team develops it further itself later or we do remains your free decision.

How a stage works

Four steps, then you decide anew.

1 · Commission the stage

Scope and effort estimate come from the Software Roadmap and are fixed in writing before the commission. You know what will be built and within what frame.

2 · Development

Our team builds with ASP.NET Core, Blazor and Azure, following our AI-Assisted Software Engineering process. You see the status regularly, no black box.

3 · Handover

The stage ends with a usable build-out: from now on your people work with it, in real everyday use, not in a test environment without consequences.

4 · Decide anew

The feedback from everyday use flows into the planning of the next stage. Or you exit, with running software and the complete source code.

Price & crediting

Every stage individually calculated. None into the unknown.

Delivery

Delivery in stages

Development stage by stage, with a defined scope and an effort estimate fixed in writing from the Software Roadmap. All prices net plus VAT.

ASP.NET Core, Blazor, Azure, PostgreSQL or SQL Server
The source code belongs to you, with no license dependency
Following our AI-Assisted Software Engineering process

per stageindividually calculated 25 % of the Software Roadmap (1,875.00 €) credited toward Stage 1

And what about the steps before?

The stages are step 3 of the Custom Software journey. The Software Compass (749.00 €) is fully credited toward the Software Roadmap (7,499.00 €), and the roadmap at 25 % (1,875.00 €) toward Stage 1. Anyone who goes the whole way pays for no step twice.

Lived practice, not a sales argument

So good the customer founded a company.

At Systemische Hilfen Niederrhein, no off-the-shelf software fit the special process of placing integration staff. We built the solution in phases: Phase 1 brought client management into production, then the next build-outs followed, each one usable right away. The result was so convincing that SHN founded Erna Software GmbH to license the solution to similar companies.

Exactly this approach is what you get with the stage model. And because you decide anew after every stage, we have to earn every further stage. That is your leverage, not ours.

Start Stage 1

Frequently asked questions

Answered clearly.

What does a stage cost?

That depends on the scope, which is why every stage is individually calculated. The effort estimate is already in the Software Roadmap, and before the commission we fix scope and frame in writing. So you know beforehand what you are getting into. 25 % of the roadmap price (1,875.00 €) is credited toward Stage 1.

What happens if we want to stop after a stage?

Then you stop, and with no loose ends. Every stage ends with a usable build-out and the complete source code. What is built keeps working for you, whether or not a next stage follows.

Who owns the source code?

You do. You pay for the development and receive the complete source code, with no license fees to us and no dependency. Whether your team develops it further itself later or we do remains your free decision.

How quickly can our people work with the software?

Sooner than you think: Stage 1 is deliberately cut as an MVP, that is, the most important process in fully usable form. At SHN, client management was in production as the first phase while the further build-outs were still being planned.

Can we start directly with Stage 1 without the Software Roadmap?

No, and that is on purpose. The MVP cut and the effort estimate of every stage come about in the roadmap, and without that basis we would build into the blue. If you have already documented your processes cleanly, we clarify in the first conversation how much roadmap work is really still needed.

Still unsure?

The path to Stage 1 leads through the Software Roadmap.

Two days of process analysis and user story mapping, then a click dummy and a roadmap with an effort estimate per stage: 7,499.00 € fixed price, with 25 % credited toward Stage 1. That way you start the delivery with a plan instead of a gut feeling.

To the Software Roadmap

The next step

Start Stage 1.

Write us a short note about where you stand: roadmap already in hand or still right at the beginning? We will get back to you within one working day with proposed dates. You talk to someone who understands processes and software.

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