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Software Factory

We help you set up and maintain your Software Factories

Our "Software Factory" offering

Deliver faster and more efficiently

Increasing the efficiency of your development teams and accelerating application delivery while optimising costs are fundamental challenges for your business.

Our "Software Factory" service consists of setting up and maintaining a dedicated software factory tailored to your needs and organisation.

Our Dev/DevOps consultants facilitate the required technical implementation using an Agile approach, helping you make process changes while bringing the necessary expertise and culture.

Software Factory: What is it?

A Software Factory is a set of tools, processes and skills your IT team uses to gain agility, security and efficiency throughout the development process.

A Software Factory automates CI/CD steps and combines them with DevOps methodologies to develop, test and deploy at high speed with full reliability.

The result: increased performance thanks to rapidly delivered features, higher satisfaction and greater security.

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What you gain

Adapting your Software Factory

lets you gain in Agility

Accelerate your deployments

Adopting a Continuous Deployment approach lets you secure and accelerate your deliveries. Your DEVs can continuously deliver value and your OPS can confidently monitor all your releases.

Improve deliverable quality

Connecting your Test Factory to your Software Factory lets you automate the launch of your integration and business tests, deploying a safety net to prevent introducing new regressions in your applications.

Secure your source code

Source code managers integrated into your software factory let you handle version conflicts, prevent destructive behaviour and provide a collaborative framework that allows your developers to interact safely.

Boost productivity

The project management modules integrated into your Software Factory provide collaborative tools that let you track project progress; your teams can interact and document their progress with ease.

Consolidate your documentation

Your documentation will be improved through the reporting tools integrated in your Software Factory. Release Notes are generated automatically, your Wikis are linked to the code, and your business test scenarios form Living Documentation.

Improve your RUN

The Build and Release modules integrated in your Software Factory will provide better visibility of your deployments and application versioning, making diagnostics and debugging easier in the event of incidents or regressions.

How to do it

Some principles for successfully setting up your Software Factory

Today it is not enough to offer functional software - you also need to propose tailored experiences that deliver continuous value and improvement to your applications. A user-centric approach based on positive experience is essential to the success of your projects. Long historical release cycles will not provide the agility you need to thrive.

Producing a constantly evolving user experience is very different from managing updates to traditional, stable applications. In addition, you need to establish a strong relationship and cohesion between development teams and operations teams to streamline your deliveries.

Here are a few tips for successfully setting up your own Software Factory.

Speed of setup matters - deploy your factory before starting your projects and do not configure components you will not use; this will prevent you from over-complicating your processes and organisation with no real return on investment.
To increase productivity, think automation. Why? Because automation reduces errors in manual processes and frees your talent to focus on what really matters: value creation. Automate your Build and Release pipelines as much as possible.
To make things easier for your teams, extend your Software Factory with additional components available online or in your vendors' marketplaces (Jenkins, Azure DevOps...).
Think consistency - favour modules that are compatible and easy to integrate into your Software Factory.
Involve multiple skill profiles in the design phase of your Software Factory: DEV, ARCHI, QA, OPS, PO and Business Experts.
Think about Roll-Back processes from the very start of your projects and equip your Software Factory accordingly.

At KOUKA, we support our clients in setting up and maintaining their development factories in operational condition. Our Koukatiens are experts in the following technologies.