A product generally reaches a much larger population of users compared to a custom built enterprise application meant for selective users. Therefore, the product will be deployed in a wide variety of systems and environments and the risks involved are greater. ‘Usability’ gains greater significance for products. In custom software application development, the environment is considerably restricted. The variables are known and any unpredicted behavior can be fixed during support. This is not the case with products. Bugs are fixed and the software is released to the public as a new version. Customer dissatisfaction is an aspect which has to be risked. Hence an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) needs a different treatment when they look for outsourcing their product management and engineering activities.

We are concerned here with product development, along with custom application development. Therefore, project management and product engineering methodologies are really important. At Quadwave, we always apply the most suitable methodology based on the requirements of the product to be developed. According to a Gartner report, a loosely-applied methodology improves productivity by 30%, while a rigidly-applied methodology improves productivity by only 10%. This is why we implement Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming and Scrum.

Quadwave offers dedicated product management and development services to its customers. Using our strengths in Software product management and engineering, we provide complete product life cycle solutions to ISVs so they can focus on their core business while we manage their engineering and product management with high level of risk-mitigation.

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