About Leeds SourceIT

Leeds SourceIT utilises the skills of some of the best students and graduates from the School of Computing, University of Leeds allowing us to provide bespoke software development solutions for local SMEs.

Typical contracts are carried out by one or more accredited student consultants working part time over periods of between two weeks and three months. A student will be contracted to provide up to ten hours per week and all projects are overseen by two LSIT managers.

Infrastructure and Methodologies

Leeds SourceIT uses agile development methodogies designed to minimise risk by developing software in short amounts of time. Each time unit (iteration) passes through a full software development cycle: including planning, requirement analysis, design, writing unit tests, and then coding until unit test is passed and working product is finally demonstrated to stakeholders with documentation.

Agile methods emphasise face-to-face communication over written documents with team composition being cross-functional and self-organising with a customer representative. The infrastructure setup using the agile methodology provides benefits to the client include a code repository and storing documentation. This allows LSIT to keep a corporate memory even after students have left the consultancy. Other benefits include technical quality assurance.

Work Experience

Leeds SourceIT Consultancy provides students with valuable work experience and skills related to enterprise demanded by emplyers today. Our students work with real clients through all stages of their projects from requirements gathering to delivery.