Leighton - Build as a service

Build as a service
Bring your ideas to life, quickly.

From concept to completion, our software delivery team will craft your solution using Agile methodologies to ensure rapid iterations, continuous collaboration, and a responsive approach that adapts to your evolving needs.

BaaS

Faster time-to-market

Bring your ideas to life quickly

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Faster time-to-market

Bring your ideas to life quickly with a speed-to-market advantage that ensures that your solutions stay competitive.

BaaS

Cost-efficient scalability

Scale your development capacity

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Cost-efficient scalability

Scale your development capacity without the need for extensive in-house resources.

BaaS

End-to-end delivery

From discovery and scoping to engineering and support

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End-to-end delivery

From discovery and scoping through to engineering and support, we look after the 
entire software development lifecycle, ensuring coordination, accountability, and successful project delivery.

BaaS

Access specialised skills

Get access to a broader range
of specialised skills

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Access specialised skills

Get access to a broader range of specialised skills that may 
not be readily available in your business.

BaaS

Delivery on time & on budget

We ensure that your project remains on track and on time

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Delivery on time and on budget

We're experienced in navigating potential challenges, ensuring that your project remains on track and on time, within 
scope and budget, and 
meets quality standards.

Leighton guarantee
Turn your ideas into reality with a proof of concept in just 12 weeks.

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Our process
Our process is The Path.

We created it so we can deliver your goals rapidly and at the highest quality.

Planning, analysis & discovery

Your software development journey begins with PAD, where we invest time upfront to gain a deep understanding of your business, your requirements and your objectives. At this stage, we are meticulously planning and analysing to define the project scope, gather business and user requirements, evaluate feasibility and establish a shared vision. This phase serves as the foundation for your software solution.

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Define requirements

Here we distil the insights gathered from PAD into a clear roadmap. Crafting a comprehensive software requirement specification (SRS), we outline your software's intricacies and requirements, serving as a blueprint for the development team. At this stage we consider functional and non-functional requirements, system requirements, UX, UI and branding and any limitations or constraints.

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Design

At this stage, we architect your software's blueprint, outlining not just its technical aspects but also creating engaging user experiences. Through software design documents (SDD), prototypes, and user stories, we breathe life into your vision, ensuring a design that's both functional and provides a great UX.

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Development

Guided by Agile principles, we build your software with precision and efficiency. Detailed sprints and milestones map the course, ensuring a steady progression towards a final product that encapsulates innovation, reliability, and adaptability. Time-bound iterations allow us to adapt to changing requirements, embrace your feedback and swiftly pivot when necessary. This iterative approach to software development enables us to deliver valuable increments of software frequently.

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Testing

Quality is non-negotiable, and in the testing phase, we rigorously validate every element of your software. Leveraging a robust QA process and a seamless CI/CD pipeline, we ensure that your software not only meets but exceeds expectations. From alpha testing to customer-involved beta testing, quality assurance is paramount.

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Deployment

In the deployment phase, we orchestrate a seamless release, coupled with comprehensive technical documentation and product demos. A technical handover ensures a smooth transition, marking the official launch of your bespoke solution.

Conducting meticulous checks to guarantee smooth functionality and performance.

Maintenance

Beyond deployment, our commitment extends into the maintenance phase. We stand by your side, offering ongoing support, addressing issues promptly, and implementing updates or enhancements. As your business evolves, we ensure your software remains a dynamic, responsive ally, adapting to changing needs and technologies.

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The Path
Why does it work?

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It’s predictable

Measuring the delivery team’s velocity ensures we can accurately predict timeframes for the remaining roadmap.

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It’s personal

It brings the right people, skills and technology together at the right time for your unique solution.

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It ensures quality

Automated testing at multiple layers of the solution, continuous code reviews and a culture of quality ensure a high quality solution.

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It’s transparent

You know where we are on your product roadmap at all times.

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Continuously improves

As we focus on the team and processes as well as the end-product, everything improves, all of the time.

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It’s pragmatic

Delivering continuously and together ensures we are always fixing the most important problems.

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It is iterative development

Releasing frequently ensures user feedback happens quickly and product direction can evolve based on feedback.

Approach
Agile delivery, as standard.

At the heart of Agile delivery is a Scrum team approach. We approach all of our build as a service projects with a Scrum team to ensure iterative and incremental delivery through constant feedback and collaborative decision-making.

Scrum fixes time and costs to control requirements using collaborative ceremonies, time boxes, frequent feedback cycles and a prioritised product back log.

Scrum team

Product Owner

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Scrum Master

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Business Analyst

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UX/UI Designers

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Software Engineers

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QA Engineers

Specialists in

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Technologies

Our experts are experienced in a wide range of programming languages and frameworks across the full software development lifecycle.

Web technologies, frameworks & libraries

Languages

Testing & quality

Cloud / Infrastructure

Database management systems (DBMS), data storage & reporting

Mobile app development

Reporting / Data analysis

CI / CD tools

Our capabilities
Critical capabilities, covering the entire software development lifecycle.

From creating the user experience to building serverless infrastructure and functionality, our software development capabilities span front-end and back-end development, and our experts are experienced in a wide range of programming languages and frameworks.

Application modernisation & replatforming

Cloud modernisation & replatforming


Agile delivery

Design systems & accessibility

Software, product & platform engineering

Quality engineering & assurance

Solution & serverless architecture

APIs & integration

UX / UI design

Business analysis

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AI & machine learning

Our work

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Testing market viability with an MVP in 20 weeks

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Streamlining access to apps with a single sign-on solution

HC-One

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Scaling SLAM portal invocations by over 1000%

Equans SLAM

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Sister companies
We practice what we preach.

For over 31 years, Leighton has served as a hub for innovation, not only in building successful software applications for some of the world’s biggest brands, but in generating business ideas and creating innovative companies that now operate on a global scale.

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Embedded experts

Seamlessly integrate our experts into your existing team or full delivery teams into your business to accelerate your project delivery capabilities. Our software development experts cover the entire software development lifecycle and are experienced in a wide range of programming languages and frameworks.

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