7 Tangible Practices to Reduce Development Life Cycle of Software Product

With increasing demand, software based companies have seen a significant boom in the last twenty years. But many companies are facing problem in “how to reduce development life cycle of software product”? Software Development Life Cycle is a process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high quality software. The SDLC aims to produce high quality software that meets or exceeds customer expectations, reaches completion within times and cost estimates.

In this article, I have described the seven sensible practices that can have a big impact on reducing the life cycle of the software product.  These mentioned practices not only reduce the entire SDLC time but also reduce the cost of ongoing application maintenance, modernization and extension.

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 1.   Providing static analysis

According to IDC study, by leveraging technologies like static analysis and others, software development organizations could realize huge saving of time and cost. Providing static analysis at the developer desktop allows them to test their code locally, identify and repair defects prior to checking in their code. Using these approach programming errors can be caught at their source by the developers themselves. It can also be benefited if used at central build process and integrated analysis of the entire software system that  ensure that the different modules of the system work together as intended.

 2.   Dedicated offshore development team

Having dedicated software development team not only reduce development life cycle of software product but also helps us to leverage a tough value proposition, hassle free, reduced development costs. The dedicated team includes business developer, software developer, designer, tester, team leader and project manager. The obvious benefit of having this is less iterations with minimal planning for each of the iterations for developing an application. This type of division of development into time frames within team increases the adaptability of the software development cycle, minimizing the risk factor and bug too.

 3.   Follow Agile Methodology

Agile methodology allows an organization to go beyond from dedicated software team and build cross functional team which can again reduce the life cycle of software product, reduce effective, reduction in project risk and increase in project visibility. This cross functional team may have inclusion of new features and multiple iterations.

 4.   Give Project to Trend ladders

Conjoining intelligent and skills in the technology, and an understanding of promising business trends can deliver a choice of product development services to end customer. These geeks are well versed about professional web application development, e-business solutions, enterprise application development, and software product engineering.  Create such product will reduce time and help organization to make better plans in order to manage resources, predefined costs, and reduced market and technology risks.

 5.   Use Pre-design Architecture

As we know business constantly changes. Therefore, architecture of software development should be able to manage agile business processes and need to have the ability to meet future changes and business requirement. For all this it is essential to make use of a flexible and adaptable platform that can respond to new requirements in an efficient way. Follow an appropriate architectural style for the design of software systems is a challenge but it helps software professional to reduce development and delivery time for software product.

 6.   A to Z Process Oriented

Initially following process in every stage of being quite difficult but once implemented then the organization can be benefited from it and can reduce development life cycle of software product. Each participate should equally contribute towards process and takes responsibility of complementing the task before the deadline and within deadline. By doing such you can leverage your core expertise in the respective area and perform well to satisfy client efficiently and with quality.

 7.   Aligned with ISO 9001 & CMMI Requirements

With highly skilled teams and world-class infrastructure, we can ensure the quality and reliability of the products we build for you. In fact, delivering quality products within time is the great way to reducing future costs. Meeting product management and software development processes with the ISO-9001 quality management system and CMMI Level Certificationis again a great way to reduce development life cycle of software product.

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Ashly Kristina

Ashly Kristina is a writer and a management consultant who loves to write about the software development news, current software trends and business environment. She has written many articles on CMMI certification and quality management standard.

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