5 Golden rules used by BAPM in Software Product sustenance

Different software products follow a different SDLC like Iterative Enhancement Model, Object Oriented Methodology, and Dynamic System Development Method throughout software product’s development. It is the responsibility of Business Analyst/Project Manager to choose which SDLC would be beneficial so as to get better product in given time span and in right budget. Following are the 5 rules that are followed by BAPM for Software product sustenance:

Product Development:

Software Product Development is the methodology used for configuration, outlining, and leading the process of developing and expanding products to satisfy end users needs. It requires a lot of ground work so as to define the product perception, consider product feasibility and ensure business achievement. A product advancement initiative must guarantee quality and work towards a specific release date. A Business Analyst/Project Manager understands the priorities and builds a product roadmap so as to ensure that right product is built and within the target budget and timeline.

Business Analyst / Project Manager act as a sheet-anchor role and inspect the complete project through the stages of SDLC to guarantee that the implementation process is carried out uniformly and ends successfully. He also ensures that on completion of the project, you get what you had actually wished for.

A Business Analyst/Project Manager ensures that following services has been delivered to the end user during development and after completion of the software product:

• Guaranteed Return on Investment
• Faster development cycle
• Increased development productivity
• Low development costs
• Reduced time to market
• Quality software products are delivered

Performance Enhancement:

Evolving technology necessitates the call for improvised solutions, enhanced products, and superior features. Software Product needs to keep swiftness with such dynamic changes offering new enhancements and features within a short time-frame to sustain their position in competitive markets and retain their customers. A BAPM plays a vital role when performance enhancement comes into picture. He is responsible for the entire Product’s performance during and after development. Enhancement may be in terms of speed, quality or Performance.

Porting & Migration:

A BAPM helps to meet the software products unique integration and migration needs. Their knowledge and expertise in diverse technology platforms helps development team to perform integration and migration of software across complex platforms in heterogeneous environments.

Currently, in software industry, incredible antagonism exists to gain the largest possible consumer base. The majority of software companies have to build a product that is offered to end users in all available platforms and to adapt new technologies as soon as they are accessible.

Migration and porting is a practical solution under these situations. This solution requires the exact approach pooled with in-depth information of the latest software technologies involved.

BAPM provides an approach to porting and migration which does not focus solely on converting the application to run in a new environment but it also ensures the reliability and integrity of the application which is maintained throughout the migration process.

Benefits of porting and migration:

It boosts visibility of the software product to new customers by offering services in various platforms, also minimizes high costs of managing in-house team to execute unnecessary and redundant functions, sustain a wider product portfolio by re-allocating the capital to more complex and innovative tasks

Optimization:

Optimizing software product is necessary for improving its performance, functionality, scalability and flexibility to adapt to new technologies. Additionally, these optimizations can help us to eliminate inefficiencies in the software product.

Maintenance & Support:

As the product matures and nears the closing stages of its lifecycle, there are many synchronized actions that you will need for its maintenance and support. As BAPM, they need to ensure that proper services are being provided to tackle those exclusive needs during the after-sales stage of your software product. These could be in terms of bug fixes, minor improvements and testing.

For any software product, BAPM needs to ensure that proper product has been delivered and it has been through different set of filters ensuring that almost no bugs would occur when the products is delivered to the end user. He also needs to ensure that the software product delivered to the end users have fulfilled their current and near future requirements.

About Author:

Varun Shimoga is a consultant in Systems Plus Pvt. Ltd. Within Systems Plus, he actively contributes to the areas of Technology and Information Security. He can be contacted at: varun.shimoga@spluspl.com