Documentation that drives results, not bureaucracy

We can help you create requirements and design documentation that provides a roadmap for the success of you project. We focus on on creating living documentation using modern web technologies and digital documentation tools that guide development, secure funding, and keep stakeholders aligned throughout your project’s lifecycle.

Our practitioners combine the discipline of legal practice with technical expertise to produce documentation that meets compliance requirements while remaining practical for development teams. Continue reading to discover how we can transform your project documentation from administrative burden into strategic advantage.

Start your project properly

Proper requirements definition sets the foundation for everything that follows in a software project. We can assist you to establish clear project boundaries and scope, define measurable outcomes, and document assumptions that might otherwise derail your timeline.

By default, we use well-structured user-stories with reference materials like UI/UX storyboards, conceptual data models or solution architecture diagrams to articulate the proposed design. This type of requirements documentation helps you avoid scope creep and provides a reference point for all stakeholders: it’s essentially a North Star for your project.

Embrace ‘Minimum-viable-planning’

Planning for a software project shouldn’t be exhaustive to be effective. You need to maintain some flexibility in your project; so over-planning can end up wasting valuable resources and budget. We can help you identify the essential documentation needed to move forward and craft it using a format that will endure for the lifecycle of the project, regardless of the technical direction that you end up pursuing.

Manage multiple stakeholders

Different stakeholders need different information from your project documentation. Part of the benefit of our experience as legal practitioners is we are adept in creating documentation that is aware of its audience. We can meet a happy medium that serves technical teams and business stakeholders together, or we can intentionally tailor our approach to be more appealing to one type of audience. Appealing to your audience through intelligent drafting is key to managing multiple stakeholder expectations, reducing project friction and ultimately maintaining momentum as you move through all stages of the project.

Get funding/impress your directors

Develop with confidence; any project, any stage

Our practitioners can serve as project managers on any type of development project, regardless of whether we’re chosen to also lead the technical implementation. We combine technology governance expertise with practical prototyping services to help you navigate from concept to MVP. Below are just some of the ways we can revitalise or kickstart any development project.

Technology Governance That Actually Works

We can provide technology governance oversight that bridges the gap between business objectives and technical execution. Our experience working in the legal industry means we have an edge establishing tried and tested governance frameworks that protect your interests without slowing down development velocity. We can assist with vendor management, technology risk assessment, and compliance monitoring throughout your project lifecycle.

Prototyping and MVP Development Services

Our development team can create functional prototypes and minimum viable products that validate your business concept before major investment. We can work with any technology stack and can help you choose the right approach for rapid iteration. Whether you need a proof of concept for stakeholders or a working prototype for user testing, we can deliver solutions that demonstrate value while maintaining the flexibility to evolve as requirements change.

Hybrid Waterfall-Agile Contracting

We often find a hybrid waterfall/agile approach works best for some customers, even in larger projects. This approach blends the predictability of waterfall methodology with the flexibility of agile development, and lets you see tangible results before committing to the entire project. The model works by structuring development contracts as discrete Statements of Work for each traditional waterfall stage, and running them as though they are an ‘agile sprint’. Traditional vendors are often unwilling to break up stages of a waterfall contract into multiple Statements of Work. However, we view this as sensible in a number of contexts and are willing to provide this flexibility in situations where others will not. It’s not the right approach for every project, but more an example of how we’re willing to work differently to traditional development firms, and mould our implementation approach to suit your commercial objectives.

End-to-End Project Advisory

Our practitioners can advise on project structure, risk management, and commercial arrangements regardless of whether we’re handling the development work. We can help you evaluate proposals from other development teams, structure contracts that protect your interests, and provide ongoing oversight to keep projects on track. Our legal and technical background means we can spot potential issues early and help you make informed decisions about scope, timeline, and project risks.

Transform ideas into market-ready solutions

We provide technology-agnostic development services that work with any framework, language, or environment your project requires, handling initial feature development through to DevOps implementation. We can also create custom commercial arrangements that weave together multiple technology products into unified subscription models. Read on for more context about how we can help you bring your project to life.

Framework and Language Agnostic Development

Our development team can work with whatever technology stack makes sense for your project. Whatever the language, framework or paradigm you need to adopt from a technical perspective, we can adapt to your present infrastructure or inform the choice you make for new projects.

DevOps Integration and Deployment

Great outsourced DevOps is hard to find; we offer a full lifecycle of services to help streamline your deployment pipeline, automate testing and quality assurance, and establish monitoring systems that keep your applications running smoothly. We can help you implement infrastructure as code practices that make your systems more reliable and easier to manage.

This includes setting up automated provisioning, configuration management and deployment of processes that reduce the risk of human error and make it easier to scale your operations. We routinely work with all major cloud platforms, and even some on-premises infrastructure should the occasion require it.

Integrations & Planning

Your technology choices are only as good as the integrations that tie them together. That being said, organisations have to walk a fine line between choosing the technologies that meet their functional needs, and ensuring that they’re easy to weave together. Sometimes you don’t get the luxury of adopting an application that is easy to integrate. For these times, Artificer can assist with integration development that puts business needs first. Don’t put up with poorly thought-out business process that leaves your people manually entering data; we can help you bridge the gap to ensure your people are freed to do the work that really matters.

Commercial Structuring

We can also move beyond development and assist in the creation of unified commercial arrangements that combine multiple technology products and services into single subscription models. This can help you simplify vendor management and reduce overall costs, especially when bringing multiple software products into management under a single DevOps provider. We can help you structure these arrangements to maintain flexibility while providing predictable costs, and we can handle the legal complexity of multi-vendor relationships so you can focus on using the technology rather than managing contracts.