Product Development Solutions For Functional Efficiency

What does a sponsor for a product expect from a team of software product engineering? To be able to deliver the following features throughout the development life-cycle:-

• Reduced cost and time
• Adaptivity towards change
• Technical expertise
• Improvement on continuous basis
• Good software

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There are many steps/processes such as lean, agile, continuous integration and tools such as deployment ones which the team can use to achieve the above goals. But even after using these tools the sponsors of the products are still running into huge issues regarding quality, costs and software not ready for production, release delays, etc.

For addressing the issues as well as challenges from the clients, approach towards these product development problems is called Product engineering which helps to build better products comprising of practices, principles, people, innovation and platform.

 

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• Practices

This involves description of how implementation of software product engineering is done in product development processes from requirements to maintenance phase. It involves best practices in requirement engineering, performance engineering, refactoring, user experience engineering, architectural standards, testing and continuous integration, etc.

• Principles

This comprises set of rules of product development which are to be followed throughout the life-cycle of product development. Some principles that are delivered are within the scope of the budget, also partnered effort with customers for the development so as to reduce waste, aiming for superiority on technical expertise and a good design working software for continuous operational efficiency.

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• People

For creating a product of high quality, it requires right team and not building the product with only one or two resources fulfilling various roles of the team. There has to be huge range of resources to choose from for e.g. UX, architects, BA, etc.

• Innovation

In order to bring continuous improvement and variation in many elements of the product or product development, innovation has to be implemented on a strategic level, as well as at technology domain.

 

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• Platform

Key for product development are budget, cost and time. They are beneficial for sponsors as well as for customers so it requires a good platform on which the product base can be created and some main platforms to speed up the development process and which can save time & effort. These should be a program to control the product quality so that the development time can be saved, plus a one to manage the requirements for release and support.

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Top 5 inspects about Product Engineering

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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