About Us

Actminds is a CMMI Application Development and Management services provider, offering services from its centers located in Brazil. Led by a team of highly qualified and certified professionals, Actminds can offer competitive rates, while enjoying a two time zone difference from EST, enabling onshore and offshore teams to work at the same time. Actminds assists clients deploying enterprise-class solutions based on various platforms and technologies. Low turn-over (less than 7%/year) and high productivity contribute to a low Total Cost of Ownership.

Actminds has been successfully applying its Agile/Scrum methodology for offshore development projects to companies in North America. Actminds has done this using many cost-effective technology platforms, with proven high value and on-time performances to clients. We have also done Test Driven Development projects, reducing timeframes and transforming maintenance in a less costly process.

Actminds software development and management are carried out by a team of over 700 IT specialists, holding degrees from the best universities, including MS and PhDs, PMI-certified project managers and other certified professionals. These highly skilled human assets offer a combination of business insight and technical expertise. All professionals involved in international projects are skilled in English and were submitted to business English tests. Cultural aspects similar to North America and Western Europe facilitate the relationship between teams and increase productivity.

Actminds puts a strong focus on innovation as a driving force when offering its services. Our global clients benefit from our capacity to be flexible enough in aligning specific needs to world-class project management services, bringing the latest technologies to improve projects.

Research & Development

Actminds invests about 12% of its annual revenue in research and development, focusing on new technologies and applications. Actminds has established partnerships with top universities and government agencies, and has been gathering concrete results in diverse projects.

Reuse and component-based development

Actminds component-based development approach increases the flexibility of the developed applications, ensuring higher adherence to current and future needs. Reuse of technical and business components lead to an efficient and fast software development resource.

Security

Actminds' security policy covers the whole organization, addressing physical and logical access, secure connectivity and network, intrusion detection, management controls, incident handling procedures, firewall policy, backup and storage.

Actminds achieves highly predictable costs, on schedule delivery and quality by using its largely proven methodologies based on international standards such as Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile/Scrum, Project Management Institute (PMI) and CMMI. The results are a development process of high visibility and traceability, with effective risk and quality management.

There are projects that should be carried out using traditional approaches, especially when documentation plays an important role, like complex business rules that will not change frequently. For these projects Actminds suggests RUP Methodology.

SCRUM is a method for project management that is becoming increasingly more common in the software industry.

Small teams consisting of a maximum 6-8 people divide their work into “mini projects” that have duration of about one month during which a limited number of detailed functionalities are developed.

Where traditional methods focus on staying on track, SCRUM is aimed at – like other agile methods - delivering business value. Each Sprint enhances the product’s market value and adds new functions and improvements that can be delivered to the client.

Agile Conceptual Framework and SCRUM

   
• Quick start with minimum documentation;


   
• First delivery in a short period;

   
• New features delivered on a regular basis;

   
• Less bureaucracy;

   
• Room for on-the-fly business changes;

   
• Clear efficiency gain.

Actminds is client oriented: creating, maintaining and enlarging know-how according to their needs. Actminds establishes its many partnerships and strategic alliances with industry and R&D players based on its client’s demands, and on Actminds own keen knowledge of the information technology industry.