Overview of Product Engineering life-cycle

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Overview of Product Engineering life-cycle
Today organizations are barely 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 top, they must partner with right vendors
to bring agility to business and accelerate
product development with high potential product
engineering services, infrastructure and
ground-breaking engagement models. They need a
partner who can help them launch new products
faster, accelerate time -to- market, quickly
adapt to business needs, reduce development
costs, improve and shorten product life-cycle
and create innovative product to exploit
market. These organizations need a partner who
can develop a product based on strategic vision.
The dawn of software delivery using different
cloud computing models has transformed the
traditional software engineering and catapulted
us into product engineering which has a larger,
all-encompassing role. Our product engineering
services aim to validate a concept and translate
business ideas into high performing products by
following these stages
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• Quick prototyping and design
• Accurate time, cost, and time-to-revenue
  generation estimates
• Requirements documentation for clarity of idea
• Maximize user acceptance through delightful UX
• Generation of POC to convince stakeholders and
  partners
• NDA for IP protection, stringent physical and
  digi tal security

• Our reliable team of skilled resources work
  diligently to offer sustainable services for
  enhancements and quick releases even after
  completion of product development.
• The product engineering life-cycle
• Cygnets concept-to-completion capabilities,
  frameworks, accelerators, product pedigree,
  domain experience and technical expertise provide
  the perfect foundation for building profitable
  products. A prototype is created with right
  balance of components of the system to be built
  in such a manner that it can be re -used in later
  stages of designing and development.
• As a part of new product engineering, we help
  with
• 1. Prototyping Ideation
• Our prototyping services will help organizations
  validate their concept and convince partners and
  stakeholders. We help organizations identify
  iron out product concept and flesh out ideas. We
  also excel at UI-driven prototyping.
• Our core services include
• Understanding of requirement
• In case of products where the scope is not
  defined, our requirements consultants work
  closely with product conceptualizers to outline
  the business objectives and software
  requirements of the project. Our experts adhere
  to software engineering and business analysis
  best practices to deliver accurate and clear
  specifications.
• Clickable Wireframes
• To get a quick visual representation of every
  piece of the final product, we create clickable
  wireframes. Depending on the complexity of the
  project, we create detailed wireframes that not
  only simulate application behaviour, but which
  also allow us to test various user roles,
  covering diverse business scenarios.
• Functional Implementation

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prototype offers clear insights into user
experience, interactions, roles and access to
information. We offer highly-detailed functional
implementations during the starting of a new
product development as a pilot. Interface
Design When building detailed prototypes with a
view to simulate and test user experiences, we
bring in our team of UX experts and graphic
design team. Based on the target audience and
the functionality offered by the software, our
designers create a GUI and allow you to get a
clear visual image of what the final output would
look like, and how the users will interact with
the application. We conduct surveys and
interviews with clients to identify requirement
of users and build multiple use cases to display
how user will move in the system. We bring into
play our understanding of the expectations of
targeted users, and combine it with your branding
strategy to deliver attractive and intuitive
designs that work well on desk tops, mobiles and
tablets. 2. Requirement analysis and product
design Cygnet incorporates user experience design
right from prototyping a product, and takes it
through all the stages of building an
application, maintaining a fine balance between
innovation, viability and feasibility. Our
end-to-end user experience design services
empower the client to deliver powerful user
experiences that help differentiate product or
application from the competition. Our core
services include Requirement elicitation and
analysis Analysis of technical and business
requirements by different techniques of
elicitation with client on regular basis to map
the loose ends by offering visual representations
and defining the system boundary. Our team
engages our client in various brainstorming
sessions, and through interviews and
surveys. User Research and Strategy Before
diving into the UX building process, we take time
to study the purpose of the application and find
out how users are going to interact with it. To
arrive at a clear understanding of the user
needs, we rely on creating personas, building
mental models, and conducting user surveys
social surveys, user needs analysis, competitive
analysis, and contextual analysis. Information
Architecture Our information architects organize
the information logically, with concepts
standards that the targeted users grasp
intuitively enabling users to find relevant
information right
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away. In addition to applying ideas related to
behavioral psychology, we also keep in mind the
specific user expectations to build an
architecture that delivers. Interaction and
visual design Our interactive design services
ensure your product delivers engaging, powerful
and desirable experiences across devices and
platforms. We study all potential ways to
overcome a design problem and choose the most
efficient and satisfying solution which is
aligned with business goals and user goals. User
Testing By testing every element of the design on
actual users, we eliminate bad user experiences
before your product launch. For simpler features,
we may simply rely on opinions of key
stakeholders, but for more complex interfaces, we
glean and act on feedback from target audience,
gathered from surveys, user observations, reviews
from experts etc. 3. Development and
testing Transforming a product into reality
demands expertise, knowledge and commitment. Our
talented and expert developers employ proven
methodologies and processes to ensure highest
quality of product. Various techniques of
product engineering for development and testing
incorporated by Cygnet are Planning poker for
better estimates once the product backlog is
written because this helps in sizing of the
product. This method is successful because it
brings the opinion of the experts for estimation
task. A product owner or a client are always
aware of the requirements but lack sufficient
details required for implementation. A good
estimate provides insight to client about the
prioritizing of each task during product
development. Pair-programming to improve the
quality of the product by eliminating
complexities at the early stages of
development. Unit testing to change code without
breaking any other code by scrutinizing the
smallest unit of the application with the help
of behavior driven development or test driven
development processes. The approach of peer and
supervisory code reviews to streamline the whole
product engineering process by fixing the errors
overlooked during initial development stages.
Peer review helps in maintenance and ensure
consistency across other projects. The approach
of automating the software QA to allow the cost
saving, add new test cases along with ongoing
development process and increase in test coverage
of application. The practice of continuous
integration and continuous delivery to allow the
team to reduce the issues if integration and
allows robust deployment of system. It also helps
the team to produce the product in short cycles
and ensures the release can be done on right
time.
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• Product deployment
• Cygnet believes in balancing the complexities of
  development and testing phase to reduce the
  time-to-market for client with techniques like
  continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  The use of this approach will help regulate
  Return on inv estment and set project objectives
  and goal in right direction early. Our expertise
  enables clients ecosystem to quickly adjust to
  development errors and bugs and test new product
  and improve the quality of deployment.
• The essence of continuous integration and
  delivery is it allows the client to focus on
  fluctuating market conditions and user demand.
  Our collaborative deployment process focuses on
  stable development process which in turn sustains
  user interaction affecting ROI early.
• Product integration/migration
• It is not a secret that products become obsolete
  with time, and continued product success depends
  on ability to innovative regularly. Our
  integration and migration services are focused
  on empowering the clients with latest
  technologies to improv e product performance,
  combat competition and build new products. Our
  services include
• Embrace tech innovations, add new features and
  functionality
• Gain scalability while ensuring peak performance
  for existing features
• Identify and patch the pain points in your
  existing applications
• Deliver delightful customer experiences through
  UX rebuilding
• Augment portability by enabling cloud and
  mobility initiatives
• Support localization and globalization efforts
• Architecture Consulting Roadmap Definition
• Code Restructuring Refactoring
• Re-documentation
• Design Scalable Architecture
• Product Enhancements

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• Product advisory services
• This ensures the periodic maintenance of the
  system once it is deployed. This is done to
  avoid the system/software from getting outdated
  by immediate fixes for bugs, permanent fixes to
  critical issues, and dependable support for
  reduced cost and improved performance
• Our core offering includes

Support and Bug Fixes

• Develop a well-defined patch management strategy
• Create patches and fix the bugs
• Mitigate any security risks
• Boost product performance
• Improve usability of the apps

Product Upgrade Enhancement

• Support for localization and internationalization
  efforts
• SAAS and Mobility Enablement
• UX design for minimum disruption to existing
  users
• Research and implementation of new features
  modules

Tech Support Troubleshooting

• Elimination of bugs through rigorous QA
• Bug tracking and reporting
• Quick response to solve bugs and errors
• Remote software support and troubleshooting
• Continuous availability of product to users

Integrations and Deployment

• Deployment assistance on client site
• Integration of product with legacy system and
  applications
• Integration of product with different hardware
• Support for both configurations and
  customizations
• With continuously changing business scenario,
  organizations must be future -ready and must
  leverage the services of product engineering
  vendors to maximize the latent potential of
  their product and outperform competitors. Cygnet
  possesses expertise and experience of developing
  robust business applications using world-class
  technology and state-of-the-art infrastructure.
  To explore how can we can maximize your products
  potential, contact us.