Maplewood Software - Summit Experience

Summit Experience
Nearly one out of every three people die in their attempt to climb Mount Everest. You might be asking, "What does a software development site have to do with mortality rates on Mount Everest?" We believe product and enterprise system development is a Mount Everest challenge. Actually, statistically Mount Everest is a little easier challenge. Software failure rates are closer to two in three.

Maplewood Software builds highly reliable and highly stable products that are accessed completely from the Internet; we build the systems other nerds gaze at from a distance. Time after time we deliver successful products; we successfully summit. If you were climbing Mount Everest, wouldn’t you want a guide that had successfully reached the Summit many times?

The difference between success and failure is experience and discipline. The larger challenges are difficult because the effort can be dramatically different each time. This is true with extreme mount climbing and it is true with large development projects. Here are some of the ways a large project can vary dramatically from a smaller project.

Database Size
Databases vary in size like mountains vary in height. The experience of climbing a 2000 meter (6,000 ft) mountain does not qualify one to climb Mount Everest at 8850 meters (29,028 ft). Likewise, a 20 Meg database differs dramatically from a 20 Gig database which also differs from a 200 Gig database. If you are confident your database will never be larger than 20 Megabytes of data, you don’t need us.

Development Phase
Software development has three distinct phases: Design, Development, and Maintenance. The final phase is by far the most expensive. Many consultants have experience in only the first two phases: design and development. The role of a consultant does not naturally fit into a prolonged maintenance phase.

Maplewood Software develops and maintains products
This means we have the experience of deploying a live product, testing to confirm prior functionality remains, and safe guarding existing data. To return to the mountain metaphor, we have climbed to the top of the mountain, not just the base camp.

Development Type
Not all development efforts are alike. Some software development efforts are much more difficult than others. Product development is some of the more difficult development efforts. If in the process of building out a department tool that tracks home phone numbers you accidentally erase the database, your co-workers will be upset with you. If you are working on a product and your customer’s data gets accidentally published on the web then your customers will also be upset but they may also take you to court.

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