Why Choose us


So why should we choose 5Mile Development, for our IT needs?

Regardless of the development predicament or scale, we recognise the correct approach is paramount. Casting aside for the moment "Business Case Models" and "Infrastructure Diagrams" to which mean little, and produce even less in terms of a solution; 5Mile development intends to simplify all aspects of an IT solution for you. Such a solution can be as small as a simple web for a Spiritual Healer to an all encompassing tailored I.T solution delivered specifically for a targeted market.

We pride ourselves on 100% customer satisfaction, which can only be achieved by granting a unique 5Mile approach to ensure delivery is both painless yet thorough, to ensure you, the customer get what you want.

So how can you achieve 100% customer satisfaction?

Simple, give them what they want!, sound patronising, or even to simple.. but it isn't.
Asking a customer what they want is fundamentally different from establishing what a customer needs. Establishing which problems / aspects can be streamlined or overcome with an IT solution gives a much higher success chance of a satisfactory IT solutions being developed.

So how do I establish what my needs actually are?

We use the right approach we set realistic milestones, and broke down the entire development lifecycle process into Five key stages.

    Key Stage development processes
  1. Analysis
  2. Architecture Evaluation
  3. Conceptual Design
  4. Implementation
  5. Test to Deploy


All of our representative have 5+ years in an Analysis for Development approach. We ensure all teams working on a given project contain all key skills essential to provide tailored solutions to a level expected by today's more IT literate community. This approach is as much for our benefit as it is for the success of the project.

So why hasn't other use this approach?
    Other companies have, and still do use a similar approach, but all are catastrophically flawed for one of two reasons:
  1. Ever heard the analogy "Too many chiefs and not enough Indians"; which roughly translates in an IT situation to "a Technical Architect, a Project Manager, 2 Business Analysts, 2 Test Analysts and wait for it... 1 developer". Not to overstate the obvious but given that the delivered solution relies heavily on the application design, implementation, interface design, security, audit and legacy. All of which are the responsibility of the developer?*!
  2. The second reason is a direct reaction to the above. Recognising this strange imbalance of tangible work against justification, fractions of developers have started to offer their services direct to the consumer. Much praise must be given to these individual developers, whilst this approach can lend it self to Rapid Application Development, it also comes with a Massive Risk. No Peer Review, No Contingency Plan, No Code Repository, No Knowledge Transfer, Sliding quality depending on their parallel commitments.


5Mile Development empowers its staff with a Dynamic Systems Development Methodology approach, and maintains up to date training for key cycle members. 5Mile Development is fully DSDM certified.

With outlets spanning the entire north of England, 5Mile Development can provide that personal touch in a ordinarily faceless remote wireless world