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A software team working in UNISON

UNISON means acting together at the same time. Our complementary engineering roles work toward one shared project, from the first requirement to the final handover.

One coordinated software team
10 members
From requirements to deployment
Seven disciplines
Priorities, shared reviews and demonstrations
Agile development
Each project works to its own agreed scope
Project based
Our story

Why one coordinated team

Unison

Acting together, at the same time. Different parts that move as one.

UNISON is a 10-person software engineering team. Our name means acting together at the same time. We bring planning, interfaces, backend systems, mobile and desktop development, AI and deployment into one coordinated project team.

We work through Agile, project-based development. A project manager connects requirements and priorities with the engineering work, while the team shares implementation, testing and delivery responsibilities.

Software rarely succeeds or fails in one layer alone. An interface depends on an API, the API on a data model, and the whole product on how it is deployed and observed. When the people responsible for each of the 7 disciplines plan and review together, the connections between those layers are designed early instead of discovered late.

Working together

How a small team stays in step

A small team moves well when responsibilities are clear and reviews are shared. Three habits keep every project connected.
  • Clear ownership

    Every part of a project has an owner who keeps it coherent: the requirements, the interface, the API and data, each client application, the AI step and the deployment. Ownership never means working alone. It means one person answers for how that part fits the rest.

    • Requirements and scope
    • Interfaces
    • APIs and data
    • Mobile apps
    • Desktop apps
    • AI features
    • Deployment
  • Seven disciplines, one path

    Each discipline joins the shared project path where its work begins and stays connected to the others until delivery.

    • Project coordination
    • Frontend
    • Backend
    • Mobile
    • Desktop
    • AI and ML
    • DevOps
  • Shared reviews

    Changes are reviewed by the people they affect. A frontend change that alters an API call is reviewed with a backend engineer, and a data change is checked against the screens that use it.

  • Coordinated handover

    Releases are prepared together. The developers, the DevOps engineer and the project manager agree what is deployed, how it is monitored and what the people running it need to know.

Delivery approach

Four steps from idea to handover

Every project follows the same proposed working sequence. Each step ends with something the customer can review, and none of them implies a fixed timeline.

  1. Align

    We agree what the software must do, for whom and why. Requirements, priorities and acceptance criteria are written down before design starts.

    Deliverable: Agreed scope

  2. Design the system

    We plan the interfaces, APIs, data and any AI or integration steps together, so each part fits the others before it is built.

    Deliverable: Architecture and interface plan

  3. Build and verify

    We build in short iterations with shared reviews, relevant automated checks and regular demonstrations against the agreed scope.

    Deliverable: Tested software

  4. Deliver

    We prepare the release, deploy through a repeatable pipeline and hand over what the people running the software need.

    Deliverable: Deployment and handover checklist

See the engineering behind each step
Working principles

What we hold to on every project

Four principles shape how the seven disciplines work together, whatever the project.
  • Clarity

    Requirements, decisions and trade-offs are written down in plain language, so everyone works from the same understanding.

  • Collaboration

    Specialists plan and review together, and the customer sees progress through regular demonstrations.

  • Reliability

    We build for the situations people actually meet: errors, slow connections, permissions and recovery, not only the ideal path.

  • Continuous improvement

    Each iteration ends with a look at what worked, and the next one starts from what we learned.

Seven disciplines around one shared project: Project coordination, Frontend, Backend, Mobile, Desktop, AI and ML, DevOps.
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Meet the people and the engineering

See the ten roles behind every project, or explore the six capability areas the team builds together.
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