Consulting Hours These hours are the time used to architect, design, analyze, develop, test, document, deploy and maintain your solution. Architect The role of a software architect is to design a software solution that strikes the perfect balance between function, strength and beauty. To do this, we listen, observe, ask questions, and then, we listen, we observe, and we ask some more. This is necessary to define your exact circumstance, functional requirements and operational requirements. We cross-reference these with existing components and proven solutions in the form of creational, structural and behavioral design patterns. We then incorporate industry standards in an effort to benefit from them and at the same time minimize the development cost. We output specifications in the form of Unified Modeling Language diagrams to depict different points of view of the solution (user, structure, behavior, environment and deployment). ptii-801 Quality Assurance This is the time it takes to make sure your application is indeed working as it should prior to deployment to a production environment. The test plan executed is a systems test of all the functionality exposed by the application. This is necessary each and every time no matter what fixes are implemented as a Quality Assurance phase. ptii-457 Developer A developer is a computer programmer who writes code based on specification provided to him or her by software architects or project managers. They turn the UML drawings into actual lines of code in a program. They are also in charge of creating the test plans the Quality Assurance tester uses to make sure the application is indeed running as it should. ptii-458 Contract Developer A developer is a computer programmer who writes code based on specification provided to him or her by software architects or project managers. They turn the UML drawings into actual lines of code in a program. They are also in charge of creating the test plans the Quality Assurance tester uses to make sure the application is indeed running as it should. This developer has signed a contract for 40 hours a week for at least 3 months. ptii-459 Contract Developer A developer is a computer programmer who writes code based on specification provided to him or her by software architects or project managers. They turn the UML drawings into actual lines of code in a program. They are also in charge of creating the test plans the Quality Assurance tester uses to make sure the application is indeed running as it should. This developer has signed a contract for 40 hours a week for at least 3 months. Half an Hour Increment. ptii-460