Product development
At our company, we not only perform custom software development and implementation, but also actively engage in product development.
Product development is the process of creating and promoting a product, which can be an application, a website, a program or a new feature. We have high competence in this area, having successfully implemented such projects as video conferencing product, SIP-telephony and webinar platform.
The key differentiators of product development are a deep understanding of the needs of the target audience, constant testing and iterative product improvement. We strive to create not just a functional solution, but a product that is really in demand and useful. An important aspect is the step-by-step development of the product, including the addition of functionality and its maintenance. This allows us to adapt to changing market requirements and anticipate user needs, providing relevant and valuable solutions.
It is important to note that such a product can be both external and internal to the company, satisfying specific internal needs.
We have created our own unique methodological framework that helps to streamline the product development process and avoid chaos. Our approach includes the following clear stages: market research, competitor analysis, prototyping and testing.
Our methodological framework is a consulting product that emerged from years of successful experience in developing and administering projects of various types, custom and product, which included the best templates, methodologies and practices, processes and tools to achieve high project performance.
If a product project is conducted within a Framework, it is:
- Manageable: the team knows exactly where it is moving, how and at what speed;
- Flexible: the project can be adjusted, reprioritized, and a particular functionality can be added;
- Predictable: on the basis of growth metrics at each iteration, the team’s performance is evaluated, the timing of project milestones is recalculated and their consistency with the project schedule is recalculated.
- Documented: any development is driven by business requirements and goes through a mandatory design phase with the formation of appropriate documentation artifacts (documents, descriptions, schemes, models, etc.). At the design stage we apply the most modern methods, including CQRS, Event Storming, Event Sourcing and Domain Driven Design – this provides the opportunity to take into account all the requirements in the design of architecture and functionality of the IT solution.
We implement our product designs with the latest load balancing capabilities through virtualization and application containerization.
We have extensive experience in using and implementing DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE practices that ensure: predictability, speed, maintainability, quality, competitiveness, efficiency, reliability, security.
We pay special attention to team building:
- The principle of initial design and documentation with the involvement of the whole team in this process allows us to organize and maintain a unified project information space;
- To ensure ease of inclusion in the process, the framework contains concise document templates with methods for filling them out. Also, the project keeps all its historical heritage available for a new project participant to learn;
- As a result of project rituals, which involve the whole team, the transparency of task setting is ensured, and in case of excessive complexity, the task is jointly divided into a number of simpler tasks, which are already clear to the executor.
- The whole team knows the current status of the project.
We utilize a technology stack when implementing products:
- Front-end: Flutter, React, Vue.js, Angular, jQuery
- Back-end: Go, Dart, Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Firebase, Apache Cassandra, Neo4j.
- Documentation: Docsify, Confluence, Wiki.js
- Task management: Jira, Trello, Redmine
- Testing:
- TestLink, TestRail, Zephyr, Bugzilla
- Mockito, Selenium, Selendroid, Postman
- CI/CD:
- Git, GitLab
- GitLab CI, TeamCity, BitBucket Pipelines, Jenkins.
Using our methodological framework and state-of-the-art technologies, we create high-quality IT solutions that meet the highest demands of the market. Our approach ensures manageability, flexibility, predictability and reliability, which allows us to successfully develop and implement product projects of any complexity.