Software projects

Software lifecycle services

  • Strategy, advisory & architecture
  • Discovery, definition & design 
  • Construct, configure & test 
  • Launch & release management 
  • Support, maintenance & enhancements 

Dedicated practices

  • Strategy, advisory & architecture
  • UI/UX & User-centred design 
  • Support & Hosting
  • Business intelligence & data analytics 

Strategic Advice

Our seasons strategists and business analysts provide valuable consulting services that drive tangible improvements in efficiency, productivity and business performance.

Human-Centred Design

When planning a new software solution, we consider it from all user aspects. We focus on the user’s specific needs and outcomes, making each experience meaningful and enjoyable.

Agile Methodology

We understand that a single methodology will not fit all projects. We partner with our clients to tailor our approach, using the latest best practice agile methodology.

Who we work with

Contact us today to learn more about our customised software solutions.

Strategy, advisory & architecture

Unlock your vision by engaging us to deliver:

  • Current state reviews and future state options
  • User and system requirements
  • Data and migration strategies
  • Infrastructure and software architecture

Discovery, definition & design

Commencing a software project with SRA includes a definition or discovery stage inclusive of collaborative stakeholder and user workshops, requirements validation, goals, outcomes, risks, and success metrics agreed and documented. This gives the overall project teams a deep understanding of what is to be achieved, by who, when and how.

We then enter the design stage and create personas, user stories, journey maps, wireframes and UI/UX prototypes. In parallel, our technical leaders create detailed functional, non-functional, and technical designs including architecture, security, accessibility, and infrastructure requirements.

Construct, configure & test

To offer our clients a guaranteed project outcome, we operate under a proven and trusted methodology, including 5 mindset stages to ensure inclusiveness and collaboration:

  • Empathise – small design rounds per work package to ensure the team are aligned to the project goals and understand the end user and client outcomes to be achieved
  • Ideate – planning and designing future work packages then presenting to the team and clients prior to commencing, ensures we stay in line with project goals  
  • Create – based on shared knowledge from previous stages, our development or implementation teams build the components of the overall solution
  • Review – we test in smaller cycles each component in the construct stage ensure that any issues or incorrect assumptions are found and managed prior to client delivery  
  • Deliver – small demos to internal team members and clients during the construct stage allowing progress to be seen and any concerns to be raised as early as possible

Launch & release management 

The final verification of your required business functionality and correct technical functionality of the solution. We emulate real-world conditions on behalf of our client before partnering with acceptance teams to ensure the solution meets your requirements. Collaborative artefacts and processes are designed, including:

  • Test strategy
  • Test cases
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Entry and exit conditions
  • Manual and/or automated testing regimes
  • Load, security, usability and accessibility testing
  • Launch preparation and hyper-support

Support, maintenance & enhancements

We take support seriously. Our own service desk, aligned to ITIL/ITSM standards provides support services for software solutions to hundreds of other customers across Australia and internationally. Our software lifecycle support service includes: 

  • Australian-based service desk (phone, email & online) 
  • Level, 1, 2, 3 & 4 ITIL functions 
  • Strict Service Level Adherence (SLAs) 
  • Reporting and escalations 
  • Proactive monitoring 
  • Infrastructure, application, security patching 
  • Incident & problem management 
  • Change & release management 
  • Roadmapping and improvement planning 
  • Client business hours and out-of-hours options 
Outcome focussed
Agile, collaborative approach

Dedicated practice areas

We understand that sometimes you require specific, high-impact components of the software lifecycle. Our dedicated practices areas can partner with you for discrete or stand-alone engagements.

ICT advisory practice

Strategy, advisory & architecture

Utilise our experienced and expert business and technical advisors to develop pre-project strategy, architecture, current/future state reviews, and business cases to plan for your transformation. 

Design practice

UI/UX & User-centred design

Our designers are available to conduct UI/UX reviews, develop personas, user journeys, process flows and usability/accessibility guides. We often develop initial wireframes, visual prototypes, and MVPs to ensure you can see and iterate on your vision prior to commitment to a development project. 

Support practice

Australian-based service desk

We can support all manner of infrastructure and application regardless of the technology or who build the system. We are often engaged to transition into legacy system support to ensure stability, security and commence a planning program for enhancements, refreshing or migration to a modern supported platform. 

Cloud migration, hosting & operations

As client embrace the consumption-based cloud model, we can assist in a lift and shift, refactoring or redevelopment project inclusive of cloud hosting and operations. We are platform agnostic and do not always need to provide the infrastructure, as we are comfortable supporting you having a direct relationship with the hosting provider where we support, maintain, and operate your account. 

Business intelligence & data analytics practice

Data warehouse and data lake

SRA can define and design implementation of data stores for business reporting or big data analytics, enabling data mining, predictive analysis, and machine learning capabilities. 

Reporting & dashboarding

From tool selection & integration to re-adoption projects, SRA can create, migrate, custom develop and implement reporting, dashboarding and analytics tools based on your use cases. 

Data governance & integration

After managing data for 30 years, SRA has developed systems and processes to manage the flow, currency, and accuracy of your data, allowing you to derive insight and decision support. 

Data modelling & ETL

SRA consultants are experts at physical database definitions, detailed ETL/data load design and detailed semantic layer/metadata design to protect and enable your analytics project. 

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