The Code Scientists Way starts with Pre-engagement Discovery. We use a research-backed questioning technique to identify the real problems you're experiencing, your expectations, how we can work best with your teams, and how we can help you address your pain points. This is a foundational step in the CSW process—experience has taught us that many companies start projects without identifying their true pains. Pre-engagement Discovery ends with our agreement to move forward.

After Pre-engagement Discovery, your project enters the Discovery phase where we perform root cause analyses, identify risks, legacy constraints, and hidden complexities. During this phase, we interview your stakeholders and end users to understand their goals and frustrations. We explore 3rd party dependencies, identify integration points, document legacy assumptions, and evaluate your security and compliance constraints (HIPAA, SOC 2, GPDR) to make sure the solution meets your standards. At the end of the Discovery phase, the Code Scientists team is aligned with your teams on what success looks like for users and business stakeholders.

Building your solution involves Planning, Scheduling, and Development. During the Planning phase, we decide on the best approach to use to manage the solution—Agile or Waterfall—Agile is good for projects with flexible and changing requirements, whereas Waterfall is good for projects with well-defined requirements. Regardless of which product development methodology our teams follow, the Planning phase turns insights made during Discovery into a concrete scope, plan for delivery, and maps the business goals to technical solutions.

With the delivery plan in place, we build a development schedule that accounts for interdependencies, risk mitigation, and stakeholder feedback loops. We prioritize features based on business value and technical feasibility, and we ensure all team members are aligned on scope, milestones, and outcomes.

During Development, our team writes clean, maintainable code, guided by best practices and informed by real user needs. We work in tight collaboration with your team to ensure transparency and responsiveness through the build, whether that means daily stand-ups, weekly syncs, or asynchronous updates. Our engineers are not just coders; they’re problem-solvers, innovators, and collaborators who thrive on building secure, scalable, and thoughtful solutions.

At Code Scientists, testing isn't a phase, it’s a mindset. From the start of development, we integrate automated and manual testing strategies to catch issues early and often. We write unit, integration, and regression tests to ensure quality, and we engage your teams in user acceptance testing (UAT) to confirm that the solution meets your real-world expectations.

We also focus on performance, accessibility, and security testing to ensure your system is reliable, inclusive, and compliant. Whether your requirements call for HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, or other standards, we test against them with diligence and care.

Deployment is treated as a deliberate, planned event. The Code Scientists team uses build and deployment automation to ensure that releases are smooth, consistent, and reversible. We prepare rollback strategies in case anything unexpected occurs, so that there are no surprises—just reliable delivery that aligns with your goals and needs.

Our engagement doesn’t end at launch. We understand that the true test of software happens in production, which is why we offer structured support and maintenance services tailored to your needs. From triaging production issues to implementing continuous improvements, we’re your long-term partners.

Our teams monitor systems for uptime, error rates, and user behavior to proactively identify and resolve issues. We also provide scheduled maintenance and feature iteration cycles to help you adapt to changing requirements and scale with confidence.

Support with Code Scientists is grounded in open communication, documentation, and transparency. Whether it's enhancing performance, fixing bugs, or supporting your internal team through knowledge transfer and mentoring, we're here to help you succeed beyond deployment.