K-Optional Services

Staff Management Software

Custom staff management software to improve your business efficiency, communication, and productivity.

Staff Management Software

Work smarter, not harder with custom staff management software.

K-Optional offers superior custom staff management software to enhance your business. We optimize communication, track task time, manage employee availability and information, and provide real-time data and analytics. Let us help you boost your team's productivity.

Consulting
Architecture & Design
Development
Testing
Maintenance
Upgrades & enhancements

Our staff management software development process

Want to learn more? Feel free to contact us and we we will walk you through our process!

- Project outline and user flows
- Database design
- Cloud infrastructure setup
- Project roadmap
- Shape-Up metholodgy
- Head-down development
- QA & testing
- Live error detection
- User flow tracking
- Architecture & new feature brainstorm

Staff Management Software Portfolio

Our Work

We have gone over the software and are very pleased with it. Looks wonderful, magnitudes better than before. Downloading the app went very smoothly. And the data export process is perfectly straightfoward.
Rebekah Keefe & Meredith Stenisland - Research Associate, University of Texas School of Nursing

University of Texas School of Nursing

The University of Texas (UT) Nursing Department requested a technical solution for administering a sophisticated survey. The results would become the basis for a major statewide study. UT hired a development firm, but the subjects (pharmacists) had a hard time with the interface. This created user errors and data output that were impossible to interpret, which made it difficult to derive any meaningful insights.

Reported Errors: 0
Reduced Training Time: 95%
Cost Reduction: 40%

The University of Texas Nursing program was to conduct a statewide pharmacist survey as a part of a study. Learn more

Frequently asked questions about staff management software

Will I "own the code" that I hire you to develop?: Yes, in our standard development contract we ascribe all code / intellectual property ownership to you, the client.
How sure will you be of project costs ahead of time?: Unlike many other development groups, we offer fixed quotes at kick-off.
What makes K-Optional different than any other development group?: This industry is littered with failed projects and disappointment, something K-Optional won't let happen. The leading causes of a doomed project are poor craftsmanship, lack of accountability, mis-coordination and inexperience; we see our work as an art, provide transparency in everything we do, and bring years of industry-leading project-management skills to every engagement.
Where is your team located?: We're all full time and all right here, in the USA. Close contact cultivates success: we hold daily meetings to review project progress and collaborate on design and development.
What happens when we finish a project?: When your app is on the web or in the App Store or Play Store, it's all yours! If you're interested in hiring us to add more features or monitor usage beyond our 30-day warranty period, you're welcome to but by no means required.

Success Stories

K-Optional & Staff Management Software

Why K-Optional?

Four unwavering principles have shaped our custom software development company into the best choice for your business.

Reputation First: Our number one priority is project success. We completely align your software development project with your business objectives. Your success is our success.
Superior Client Service: We’re responsive, open, and fast, so you know what we’re working on at each phase of the software creation process. We share our reports directly with your team.
Leadership & Professionalism: We are leading staff management software development experts, and our team consists of top in-house app development professionals in the US. The industry subscribes to K-Optional's technology leadership.
Lean Innovation: Be resourceful and responsible by tapping a team that cares about costs. We create innovative staff management software with your objectives, ROI & budget in mind.

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Strategy

Our rules for engagement with GPT and LLMs

For a custom software business in the year 2023, large language models (LLMs) like GPT are hard to avoid. GPT takes have flooded tech news while GPT projects constitute an overwhelming proportion of trending open-sourced software. It’s not just hype: LLMs have proven remarkably adept at writing code, generating content, and assisting with research— all pertinent to our operation. Prognosticators wonder if the shift to AI-driven development permanently alters the custom software industry. The emerging art of Prompt Engineering speaks to a shift. And so, after careful consideration, we have crafted this framework for dealing with LLMs internally.

John Considine

May 3, 2023 7 min read

Insight

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You’ve probably heard a success story or two about custom software development, something like “ordinary guy launches a popular mobile app” or “business cuts costs in two with a clever digital system”. Perhaps you’ve also heard of a flop— maybe a friend sank money into an idea that didn’t take off, or a colleague owned a faltering IT migration. The horror stories, though depressing, can teach the most. So if you’re considering a foray into custom application development services, get to know the points of failure. They’re less public, so unfortunately many learn someone else’s hard lesson again.

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Insight

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Insight

Why we’re moving away from Firebase

We’ve launched dozens of applications on Firebase, utilized nearly every facet of the platform, and designed a playbook for scaling gracefully. Suffice it to say, it’s proven an invaluable tool for K-Optional Software. As recently as March 2022, our developers were cheering innovations like Firebase Extensions. Unfortunately, three major developments in the past few months have polluted the developer experience and consequently K-Optional will shift towards alternatives for green projects.

John Considine

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Insight

The perils of single-client SaaS products

Subscription revenue is the gift that keeps on giving; who doesn’t value long-term and predictable income? Multi-billion-dollar companies like Adobe have transitioned their products to subscription-based payments for good reason. Even so, product creators might be overly-disposed to conforming to this model- alternate pricing systems often make more sense depending on a few aspects of the user-base.

John Considine

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Strategy

When to buy, and when to build custom software

Explore the build vs buy dilemma in software development with a real-world case study, and learn to strike the right balance between off-the-shelf solutions and custom software.

John Considine

September 3, 2022 6 min read