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High Definition Technical Software Design Documentation Design - Most organizations experience software projects running at a fast pace - due to the huge pressures to deliver – however this means that vital documentation always gets sacrificed first with the mistaken view that it will increase development speed, and secondly it’s very hard to do well so documentation is the unglamorous ‘dull’ part of any development. This definition sacrifice generally causes projects to go off track later in the project life cycle as the lack of documentation leads to unmanageable scope creep in combination with dropped functionality and vital computing processes being defined on the fly – leading to client contractor clashes. There is a need for local, independent, highly skilled, creative software designers / consultants to provide high quality documentation which could be used by organizations to get third party development houses to accurately quote against and implement. Audit - In combination with the new design, we realized that most companies have some form of incumbent / legacy software system in place, often these programs have been maintained and developed for several years by numerous programmers, and though many alterations have been made to the software, the supporting documentation is unlikely to be up to date. These factors contribute to the heavy cost of maintaining these legacy programs or continuing their development. In combination with high general maintenance costs due to the lack of documentation, if a key individual or team leaves an organization the systems might get scrapped as no one will have the knowledge to manage the system, in many cases a new product is purchased to provide functionality that is already in place. To prevent these issues, Noat provides small-scale business continuity consultancy, developing and bringing up to date missing documentation from a management perspective as well as a developer / software contractor perspective.