Before we started development, we spent time carefully considering the brief, researching tools, choosing technologies, and having discussions with integration partners to ensure what we were building would stand the test of time whilst being lightning-fast and able to deliver real value to the end users. We then architected the ERD for the database and wrote the draft 70-page specification, outlining the sitemap and the API and CRUD methods, before incorporating client feedback and that of our development team that would be working on the project.
We used the specification to split the project up into natural segments (such as API, Front end, Admin, Feeds, and Scrapes) and then backlogged these into even smaller tasks for each sprint.
Throughout this programme, which has comprised multiple projects, we have used our extensive experience in both Web Scraping and other property sectors to quickly and easily onboard new Agents by taking properties from hundreds of automated feeds and even scraping properties from their own websites where feeds aren’t available.