Developing Software Product with a Difference

Organisations are sailing through a storm of challenges and technology disruptions. To thrive in this demanding environment, it is important they meet the quintessential need of providing a top-notch experience to their customers and showcase greater adaptability. To stay on the top, businesses must adopt technologies and process that allow them to develop products that make a difference.

Every organisation understands the software development life cycle and would have done everything to adopt it rightly. However, we at Cygnet Infotech, does it with a difference and has been very successful. I will share few stages where difference in approach allowed us to fetch awesome results.

Product Ideation and prototyping:

Ideation is something very vague and to actually map it as a workable concept is a challenge. Right from discussing idea with client, including designers and developers make a huge difference as they understand the challenges and can guide you in the right way. As a product development company, this will help you not to over commit anything.

Prototyping can be developed in a way that can be re-used. Prototype is prepared with the use of HTML and a few chunks of code to check feasibility of the project and just to dispose it at the end is not wise. We have been developing reusable prototypes that has helped clients even they does not opt for Cygnet as their service provider.

Development:

Choosing a product engineering methodology has so much to contribute towards success. Agile Scrum is one of the best methodology that divides the end goal into small deliverables. Teams focus on these deliverables and make it happen. With this, everyone stays on the same page and are aware about what needs to be implemented next.

Using Behavior Driven Development is another crucial development fundamental that drives success. With BDD, each requirement is documented in a way that both client and developers understand and agree upon.

Support:

Testing, deploying and maintenance are no brainer. Everyone must have mastered it but support! Yes there is much scope of improvement when it comes to support. Biggest mistake while considering a IT company is to consider a product development company and not product engineering company. An engineering company will stay responsible even after product is delivered. They will support you 24 X 7, may what comes your way. It is about building relationship with clients and sharing success. Giving considerable importance to support makes you a better company.

Doing the things right is one part but making it even better is what you must look for being a Product Engineering company. Clients like if you collaborate with them during the entire process and keep then involved and informed.

If you want to read the story on how to approach each stage differently, here is the link to it.