Application software development has always been challenging, just look at the statistics on projects running over budget, missing deadlines, or failing to deliver. To make matters worse, the last twenty years have added a new level of complexity with object oriented technologies, networks, handheld devices, web browsers, and users expecting ever faster development cycles.

Nevo was created to address these challenges directly. We recognized early on that there had to be a better way. There had to be some reason that everyone from startups to Fortune 100 corporations struggled with application development.

The answer was simple - the skills, experience, and processes required to specify, design, and develop applications are quite different from those required to support, enhance and maintain them. Since 90% of the time and effort is spent supporting, enhancing, and maintaining, it is only logical that companies would be staffed and structured for those tasks.

Nevo focused on building a high performance development team, one that could provide predictable results - on time and on budget development, at a cost substantially below either doing the work in-house, or using an off-shore alternative. It proved to be more difficult than we had imagined. But fifteen years and dozens of projects later the advantages are clear.