The feature stuck in the backlog for months, taken from analysis to production one milestone at a time
CODEPRESS's feature development takes a feature your team has no time or skill to build right now and carries it from analysis to production, in 4 to 10 weeks from €8,000 depending on scope. The work runs in milestones with a stated date and cost each, not by the day. The code ends up in your own repository, covered by automated tests and ready for handover.
from €8,0004–10 weeks
What feature development is for
Every backlog has one line that has sat there for months: not because it is hard, but because nobody on the team can put everything else down for two straight months to build it. Whoever inherits it from outside risks starting from the requirement as it was told in a meeting, not from the real workflow people will use: the gap only shows after delivery, when the feature does what was written but not what was needed.
The other risk is a price that quietly grows after the first month, because the scope "became clearer" along the way. Milestone-based development runs the other way round: each stage carries a stated date and cost before it starts, paid on delivery rather than by the day. If a milestone turns up more work than expected, that shows up right there, at the stage where it happened, not close to the final delivery of the whole project.
What feature development covers
Analysis of the real workflow
Before writing a line we watch how the people who will use the feature actually work, not only the description given in a meeting: that gap is where forgotten requirements come from.
Milestones with a date and a cost
The work splits into checkable stages, each with a date and a cost stated before it starts: you pay on reaching the milestone, not by the day worked, and you always know where things stand.
A review environment from day one
From the first milestone you get an environment where the feature takes shape and you can try it yourself, instead of meeting all of it at once on final delivery day.
Automated tests and documentation
The code arrives covered by automated tests and by documentation that explains the choices made, not just a list of functions: that is what lets your team maintain it after us.
How feature development works
Analysis and milestone breakdown
We look at the real workflow together with your team, break it into checkable milestones one by one, and set the date and cost for each before writing the first line of code.
Development in stages
We build one milestone at a time, deliver it into the review environment, and move to the next only once your team has tried it: no surprise crammed into the last week.
Tests at every stage
Every milestone carries its own automated tests; we don't leave them for the end: a defect found halfway costs a fix, not a rewrite.
Delivery and handover
At the final milestone the code lands in your repository with the documentation and a dedicated handover session, so your team can maintain it from day one.
What you get from feature development
- The feature in production, inside the real workflow defined during analysis, not just the requirement as told in a meeting
- The code in your repository, with the history of milestones shipped one by one
- The automated test suite written alongside the code, not bolted on afterwards
- Documentation of the choices made during development, delivered together with the code, not written up separately afterwards
- A review environment available from the first milestone, not only at final delivery
- A handover session with your team once the work is done
When feature development is not for you
- The requirement isn't defined yet: milestones here break a real workflow into stages, and there's nothing to break down if the workflow doesn't exist yet. Test whether the idea works with a PoC first, then come back with something to break down.
- What you need is a whole product, not a feature inside a system that already exists: milestones here assume an architecture to build against, and a brand new product doesn't have one yet.
- You're looking for people to sit alongside your team and bill by the day, with no closed deliverable at the end: that isn't what we sell, and we say so before signing, not after the first month.
What feature development costs, and why
We don't bill by the day: every milestone carries a date and a cost agreed with you before it starts, and that's true from the first one. A feature that wraps up in two stages costs less than one needing twice as many: the difference sits in the plan you sign at the start, not in an unexpected invoice halfway through.
If development turns up the need for a milestone nobody foresaw, its scope and cost are agreed the same way the first one's were, before that stage begins: it isn't a line that shows up on an invoice as a surprise. Milestones already delivered and paid for don't reopen to cover that cost: it stands as its own stage, with its own price stated up front.
Feature development: frequently asked questions
- How much does feature development cost?
- It starts at €8,000, not by the day: every milestone carries its own cost stated before it begins, and the number of milestones needed to cover the real workflow decides where the final figure lands. You know that from the plan agreed at the start, before work begins, not from an invoice after the fact. Each further milestone is priced the same way, one at a time.
- Do you work in our repository or your own?
- Yours, from the first milestone: the code is born in the repository that stays yours after delivery, not in a separate environment you then transfer it from. We work with your own build and review pipelines, so what you see during development is exactly what runs on handover day, with no gap between the two.
- Who owns the code?
- You do, from the first commit: it is born in your repository, under your licence, with no clause tying you to us for maintaining or extending it afterwards. The final handover doesn't transfer an ownership you already have: it explains to your team how the code is built and why certain choices were made, so they can work on it without depending on whoever wrote it.
- How are releases organised?
- By milestone, each one checkable on its own in a dedicated environment before we move to the next: not one delivery at the end of ten weeks, but stages your team can try as they are built. Every milestone carries its own automated tests, so a defect surfaces at the stage where it was born, not months later in production.
- What happens after delivery?
- The code stays in your repository, covered by tests and documented, and a dedicated session hands your team the choices made during development, not just a list of what changed. From that point maintenance is yours: there's no support contract that kicks in automatically, and no hidden dependency on whoever wrote the code.