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Software is cheaper to produce and more reliable when developed by a close team of developers and business analysts using test-driven project management. The single most important factor for successful software development and delivery is as simple to describe as it is easy to lose focus of: describing in unambiguous terms what the developers need to build to support the organization, and giving experienced developers the tools and liberty to implement the solution.

Blumenfeld & Maso uses test-driven development techniques with close collaboration practices between your business analysts and engineers to manage successful projects through the full software development lifecycle.

We recognize the value of common knowledge, which breeds predictability and familiarity. This is true for the individual analyst and developer, as well as for a development team as a whole. We have the experience and wisdom to apply our time-tested engineering principals, practices and technologies to a project, which gives you quality results.

• Development Management & Practices. A strong sense of development efficiency is the product of being involved with many different projects in many different companies. We've been many places, and seen in vivo what development and management practices reap the greatest rewards. And also which are time sinks or dead-ends. We have developed a set of commication and test-driven practises that we have seen leads to the greatest development team efficiency. Let us show your teams how to work more efficiently, finish projects on time, and most importantly avoid development tangents by staying focused on the actual project requirements.
• Enterprise System Design. There are many, many ways to implement an enterprise system. There is a wealth of design patterns that can be employed for each major enterprise function: persistence, security, management, distribution and audit/logging. Which designs and tools work well together? More importantly, which designs provide your system with the capabilities it needs for the smallest development and maintanence costs? These choices are where experience counts the most, and these choices are where we can help save you litterally man-years of effort, which translates to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars saved.
• Information Security and Access Security. Blumenfeld & Maso has been called upon by several clients to research and design information security for government and commercial applications. We have the skills and the tools to analyze your information security requirements, design and develop solutions. From Internet-based web services to stand-alone appliances, we've got the experience for your needs.

• Web Services. Through his involvement with DevelopMentor, one of the original authors of the SOAP specification, Brian Maso has been deeply involved with SOAP, XML and Web Services. We have provided expertise for several clients to create service-oriented architectures using XML and web services.
• XML Databases. Native XML databases (NXDs) are incredibly efficient and effective at storing and querying data that is difficult or impractical to store in traditional RDBs. Brian Maso is an expert in the emerging XQuery language for querying and transforming XML data, and using XML Schemas to structure data.