We focus on the design phase of software development, with active involvement in real-life client projects as a key aspect of our work.
Our services bring expertise in software architecture, code design, and project management, enriched by the learning we gain through teaching.
We lead technology, design, and processes, collaborating with client teams and providing coaching to help them achieve their goals.
Our services build on each other, each fitting different stages of a software project or specific organizational needs.
Software Architecture and Project Design services combined, help organisations transition from staff augmentation, where they sell hours, to becoming solution providers, where they deliver project milestones.
We support key architectural decisions, from System Decomposition to Detailed Technical Design.
Our work involves identifying critical system behaviors, core technical requirements, and providing tailored solutions.
We assume the responsibilities and decisions of the architect role, acting as the design lead, technology lead, and process lead.
We apply an effective engineering method to create an actionable project execution plan.
The plan outlines the schedule of activities, allocates resources, and makes strategic trade-offs to meet project goals within constraints, balancing schedule, cost, and risk.
The process provides charts and tools to track progress and adapt the plan during execution.
We help architects, managers, and developers build the skills needed to achieve their goals with ongoing support.
We are available to your team while they work, providing access to our extensive project experience. We engage directly with the project, becoming familiar with its specific requirements and constraints.
Our goal is to build skills within your team, enabling them to achieve their goals independently rather than relying on us.
We offer technology leadership for companies without a full-time CTO, aligning tech strategy with business goals.
We lead design, technology, and processes at the organization level, focusing on forward-thinking initiatives.
We prototype the future of the company's technology, solve hard problems, and adopt product thinking for a competitive advantage.
We know the right questions to ask and we know the common causes of failed software projects.
When projects fail repeatedly, the root cause is often unclear. Adding people or extending deadlines may not help. We identify the root causes and provide solutions to get projects back on track.
Expert review of architecture or critical decisions helps reduce the risk of missing key factors needed to achieve success.
Whether you need a sounding board or a second opinion, we provide insights and perspectives to support your goals.
We join round table sessions to provide a space for second opinions, share ideas, explore solutions, and brainstorm approaches, offering guidance to help make informed decisions.
We facilitate technical events on specific topics, debating how best practices apply to company-specific challenges.
We work together to understand your project, organization, and challenges, making it a collaborative effort to determine how our expertise and services can help you achieve your goals.
Drawing from our extensive project experience, we develop training programs that enhance predictability and reduce the cost of change in software projects.
We focus on building the habits that make developers adopt the industry best practices resulting in a flexible code design.
Code Design is a consulting agency specialising in the design phase of software development.
Over the past decade, Florin has led the design and implementation of complex software systems across industries such as Energy, Finance, Healthcare, Business Productivity Tools, and Insurance. These projects involved distributed systems built for long-term, incremental development, overcoming common challenges to ensure success: on time, within budget, and on quality.
Florin’s experience often includes coaching and training the developers implementing his designs, further enriching the training materials he provides.
At Code Design, Florin collaborates with a team of like-minded professionals and experts, many of whom he has previously worked with, to deliver comprehensive, high-level services in software development.
We share our insights and experiences from working on client projects and teaching developers.
Our articles blend technical expertise with real-world challenges, offering a unique perspective on Code Design.
For us, Code Design means structuring code to ensure predictability and making it easy to manage and adapt long after it's written.
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