Cadent's original mandate was to provide contracting services to high tech companies. This involved being on-site doing active development for a given project.
We still provide development services to clients on a stand-alone project basis where a specific piece of work is well defined and can be developed by us at our own site and delivered to the client upon completion. This allows us to retain control over the high level of quality/craftsmanship we have become known for.
Typical projects which are perfect for such off-site development include:
- Prototypes for startups seeking funding.
- Experimental prototype work to help determine future directions.
- Plugin development.
- Security audits of existing software.
- Glue code to integrate existing commercial or open source components.
- Utility development.
Please Note: Because we require well defined projects, Cadent will not participate in projects utilizing pure Agile Development techniques. We have tried this already and it did not allow for a predictable, quality delivery or a clear cut completion date (i.e. cost overruns).