How to Organize Your Software Product Development Process?

Any software product is developed using any modern technique. SDLC (software development life cycle) allows you to plan the right methodology and implement it in all spheres of the business. In practice, several methods of planning future development are used – Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, as well as express Software Product Development Process.

Advantages of SDLC

• A clear relationship is achieved between each member of the staff involved in the development.
• The risk of errors is reduced.
• Each developer knows exactly the range of their responsibilities.
• Prioritize correctly and follow the sequence of product development stages.
• The ability to identify errors at every stage of product development.
• All work is carried out in strict accordance with the business plan.

When ordering the development of new software, do not confuse the concepts SDLC and COTS, which belong to already developed mass products, like Microsoft Office.

Why do your business needs this planning system?

By thoroughly following the software development planning strategy, the customer receives many advantages:

• When ordering individual software, the developers thoroughly pay attention to all the requirements of their customers.
• The consumer will always be able to order decentralized applications, each of the services of which can be easily adapted to changes in the business environment.
• The customer has a unique opportunity to create his extensive platform with a large number of free clusters, each of which can be supplemented as the business develops.
• This is a great opportunity to introduce new servers that will drive your bottom line.
• Startups can count on a significant decrease in the price of the purchase of a ready-made, promoted product.
• Most developers offer new software based on existing and successful analogs. It allows easy integration of the interface into the new cluster structure and is easy for users to learn while operating the program.
• You shouldn’t even be reminded once again that an individual application helps you earn more real money.
• Depending on the customer’s budget, the developers will offer the introduction of several levels of protection against hacking, which guarantees the safety of the personal data of each user and eliminates the risk of cyber-attacks.

When you need special software

Your company serves a specific industry for which you cannot find typical software.

• If you always work with some complicated data.
• In case, you need some additional services.
• If your company has restrictions about the safety of your software.
• The decentralized new application always gives the possibility to increase the business and the profit.
• Such individual development will also allow you to correct all the inaccuracies that you previously found in the standard software.

When you don’t need it

• You don’t have enough time for developing, launching, and long testing your new application.
• You want to be sure, that you will not have a problem with a lot of mistakes while using the new software.
• If you are in a classic business, for which there are many different applications.
• If you have a limited amount of money and you want to accurately calculate your budget for purchasing software, and you are not ready for additional expenses.

7 basic levels of developing the new software

Below you can see 7 basic stages of correct planning, which all developers go through, regardless of the scale of the software being created:

1. Brainstorm –  This is the 1^st level of business planning when the developers try to find the answers to the following basic questions:

• What is the main problem which should be decided?
• How you’re going to decide all the problems?
• What is the scale of your business project?
• Do you have enough staff and resources to make the service maintenance?
• Do you need the integration of your new project to a different typical platform?
• What will be the interface of your new product?
• Which advantages are you ready to offer to your customers?

2. Analysis of incoming information:

• How to properly encode information to achieve the required security level?
• What are the terms for introducing a new product to the market?
• Calculation of the required budget to achieve the set goals.
• Scheduling resources for maintaining your software.
• General calculates the profitability of the business. after the software is included in the investment expense.

3. Choosing the right architecture for your future product. At this stage, customers decide what kind of product structure the developers will use when creating it – a monolith or microservices:

• In the first case, the program is easier to develop and implement, does not require a lot of staff to maintain it, but, at the same time, it is difficult to adjust and install updates.
• In the second case, a decentralized system is achieved, which is easily configured for today’s business realities but requires special attention during maintenance.

4. The software developing process:

• Choosing the right product development methodology.
• When choosing an Agile methodology, the developer has the opportunity to assign responsibilities between all participants in the process, ensuring control of each of them.
• Technical designing of each new step.
• Creation of a design for the convenience of using the product.
• Implementation of an encryption key to ensure security.
• Assembling all developments into a single model.

5. Testing and monitoring system performance:

• Verification of the interconnected operation of all applications.
• Monitoring the operation of protective settings to prevent data leakage.
• Checking the relationship of applications with the platform.
• Identification and planned elimination of all errors.

6. Product launch:

• Starts immediately upon completion of testing.
• Pilot launch of each application separately.
• User feedback check.
• Integration of all applications into the right business environment.
• Gradual scaling of the system as demand for a product or service grows.

7. Technical support during normal operation of the product:

• Prompt identification and error correction.
• Periodic installation of updates.
• Search for the risk of possible cyberattacks and their prevention.
• Expansion of the number of free clusters.
• The introduction of new services, as the business progresses, or to adapt to existing realities.

We only use flexible methods of planning the development of new software. When providing a service, all the wishes of the customer are taken under the attention. We offer only cutting-edge solutions that guarantee complete cybersecurity and the ability to expand the platform to increase the income of each user.