Mean Green Software

About Us

Over the years, Mean Green consultants have become adept at adopting a Chameleon-like work mindset in finding the best value for our clients using the least amount of resources in a multi-disciplined holistic process able to analyze and implement all facets of your project.

We've borrowed a page or two from the Chameleon, a creature admired for its adaptability to changing conditions and the "mean and green" methods it uses to thrive in a wide variety of ecosystems. Like a Chameleon, your web presence changes to reflect changes in business climate, client demographics, new product/service offerings and the demands of the market.

Mean Green Software is nimble like the Chameleon, able to adapt to a project's changing life cycle demands. The mean in Mean Green alludes to our no-nonsense methods of cutting through the project jungle to get the job done. The green in Mean Green symbolizes our commitment to tread softly within your business environment, totally focusing on the target of achieving a cost effective, on-time, on-target realization of your project's philosophy and goals.

Chameleons have the ability to see in different directions, achieving a 360 degree field of view. Mean Green's primary project methodology is to gain perspectives of the project from multiple angles - the business domain, business and process analysis, planning and scoping, information architecture, iterative software analysis and design, development, testing, documentation and deployment. Mean Green has these diverse discipline resources at hand to lend differing perspectives to your project, resulting in a unified, no-surprises solution that merges seamlessly into the domain environment, just like the Chameleon. In other words, we're able to deftly handle your project from start to finish in a holistic fashion.

  • Project Management Methodologies

    The net result of completing many projects for many clients is that each has its own working culture and project management methodology. Mean Green project managers and our seasoned developers are able to work very effectively under these project management environments:

  • Rational Unified Process

  • RUP is used to structure a project in flexible, iterative and interwoven steps that conforms to our client's processes. Powerful and productive RUP tools can be used that helps define and track the full project range, from business process modeling and requirements gathering to testing and deploy management. For projects requiring formalized compliance based processes, this is our first choice.

  • V Model

  • V Model is a process stressing verification and validation of complex software systems that are required to go through the rigors of a formalized SDLC process, as is found in the life sciences and space technology arenas. This is our second choice for projects spanning moderate complexity and collaboration amongst diverse product/services groups within your company.

  • Agile development

  • Your customer's current needs and goals are the primary focus when using Agile methods in a frequently iterative and lightweight planning process. The progress of your project is readily viewed in short, incrementing steps throughout. Mean Green recommends this process with a small and nimble development team focused on delivering specific functionality within a short time frame.

  • RAD

  • The Rapid Application Development model is not for the squeamish. It is based on committments from the project owners to modularize and reuse prototype components discovered during the business, data, process modeling phases and generate the application in an abbreviated time period. This method works well when the requirements are well known and understood. Mean Green recommends this process if the culture fit is there and Web 2.0 style collaborative developement is in play.

  • Extreme Programming

  • For projects with many unknown variables and requirements, this methodology that stresses short term feedback loops, brief stand up meetings, minimum documentation, test-first development and a typical pairing of developers focused on as-soon-as-possible release of tested functionality. Mean Green recommends this process methodology only under the rare conditions of augmenting a development team consisting of senior individuals that have demonstrably worked exceptionally well together.

  • Modifed Waterfall

  • For those organizations that have a formal requirements to maintenance cascading process, the modified waterfall model is used and recommended. Requirements do not have to be "set in stone" and all analysis and design complete before development commences.

    We have the ability, experience and expertise to conform to your business processes and needs to get the job done. Mean Green has been influential in managing process improvements using CMMI, founded and promoted by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.

  • Technical Knowledge

    So, what have we learned technically and what do we know? Our clients have discovered that Mean Green has the technical diversity to undertake many different challenges and practiced successes in many industries using a large collection of solution technologies.

  • Project Holistics

    Our view of holistic project management is actually a simple basic one that is sometimes complicated to implement. Project holisitics is a way to manage ALL of the many parts of a project, its environment, the customer/user environment and take your project in the direction that you envision it should go. Project stakeholders may be versed in a specific aspect of a project - management, development, testing and so on. Mean Green has a small cadre of multi disciplined professionals that have expertise from top level management to working the nuts and bolts of a project. In other words, we have a few guru level jack-of-all-trades people at your service.

  • AdaptableProjects

    Your changing business landscape warrants that your projects meet the new demands of your cutomers while supplying them with a "cradle to cradle" solution. Mean Green looks at your project as a continuum of your business adaptions that leverage your existing software solutions in a way that allows maximum reuse of your current solution technology carried forward into the next project.

    Like a Chameleon, Mean Green has the right solution for your organization that factors in change, within the project and later on, the ability of a customer deliverable to handle changes in the way your customers conduct their business.