Product engineering is a challenge for
the companies and it still is. We have seen different companies finding
different solutions to tackle it. Techniques like agile development,
test driven development, etc have both been successful and unsuccessful.
After working many years on this field, following factors can be
considered in current scenario as product engineering has become more
important than ever before.
- Development Standards of Future Generation
Technologies of today’s world which
deals in software developments like cloud computing, SaaS, HTML5,
Java Scripts, for getting implemented in the products, must be upgraded
or defined for it is an important aspect for development standards. The
expectation is that with the help of these technologies and a good
internet connection, each request can get processed in 2 seconds.
Whatever the changes which arises as per
the requirements, the development team must adapt to it and should
start implementing those which comes from business users at faster time.
The agile process support this type as per the market expectations but
only if the design is not modular.
When developing new products, an
important factor to keep in mind is that how well the development
structure will be fruitful for the developers to increase the
productivity and velocity on user experience. Earlier it was mainly
focused on handling the types of error texts which contributed to 10-15%
of the development efforts even at the design level. A structure is a
must have to handle all the basic error messages and allowing the
developers to create a code and test it.
- Transformation Technologies
The transformation of technology has
been seen by the industries for many years. Every new product has to
keep adapting to these changes in technologies in order to sustain in
the market. For e.g if a product does not have today’s SMAC technology
in it, it’s unlikely for the product to even get past the initial phase
and the ROI of the product will start declining. Many software
messengers were doing well until the emergence of Whatsapp. For
increasing the ROI, there are other technologies like light weight
technologies, big data, real time protocols, etc.
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- Software Automation in Product Engineering
Keeping in view the agility of changing
requirements of today’s world, it’s a challenge for product development
also the quality of code from developers and time to market the product
and a good control on budget. It gets more challenging when it gets
outsourced to another vendor for the development. Software automation
has helped bringing out the best in employees, on time delivery and
quality products in manufacturing industries. By merging engineering
automation and software development process with tools supporting it, it
will help delivering the quality product timely and also flexibility to
release product in the market frequently.
- Evolving & Emerging Software Product Process
Disruptive changes have been created by
the impact of technologies. Similarly, there have been some changes in
the process like lean, waterfall, agile, etc. We need to have a process
which supports the product if we want to develop a product for emerging
industry. Agile technology still supports in reduction of backlog
requirements. After all this, product can still fail after going into
the market. Many sellers approach this in their own different ways.
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- Knowledge Management
The key to any software product and retaining it is knowledge especially when it is not possible to retain
all the talent over longer period because of global economy and it is
difficult also to find that knowledge with one person. For this, you can
have a knowledge management system that can help the teams involved in
evolution of the product from starting process of engineering to sales
and marketing. The main challenge lies with the engineering team
involving product manager, developers and testers and development
managers whereas knowledge based systems can be easily available with
functional and operational team. Systems available for engineering team
are bug tracking, requirement management, and source code repository
tools. But all these are for long duration to gain knowledge. A single
system is needed to cater to the challenges and when it’s done,
engineering team can bring in the expected ROI as soon as the product
enters different life cycle.
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