Why an agile design workflow?
Catalyst typically works in sprints of 4-6 weeks. Each sprint enhances the software application's market value and adds an increment (sometimes large) in functionality and improvements that can be delivered to the customer. The relative shortness of the sprints improves the transparency of the process and gives the design and development team regular and achievable goals. The shortness also enables us to respond quickly to changing needs or requests from users, stakeholders, or external conditions such as the markets.
The pressure felt by our clients in today's market is palpable. Whether a CIO, VP of development, or development manager, each needs to justify any SaaS design project with early and frequent wins. A focus on user experience design using agile techniques achieves this with substantive, incremental deliverables and continuous refinement and integration. This methodology for SaaS application design enables companies to get out releases quicker, and be confident that those releases will be well received by existing and new customers.