The Need

Customers in the on-demand world are conditioned to accept accelerated release schedules with new features appearing without much fanfare. For a product and development team with a background in the traditional licensed model this can be a disorienting experience. But web-based products are not single dimensional. Increasingly, integration with other online services and back-end data sources can complicate release management and require a lot of oversight and careful management.

The Solution

Evaluation of your product development, application development, testing and release management cycle by a Scio’s experienced analysts, developers and quality assurance team. With a collaborative approach to best of breed practices for more Agile development and careful feature tracking, our team and your in-house team work together to develop an release management strategy that is tuned to your products, customers and market.

Our Approach

Scio’s approach includes reviews of your:

• Product Development Cycle
• Feature Tracking
• Development and Release Methodology
• Quality Assurance
• Customer Acceptance and Feedback Systems
• Staff Readiness and Training
• Sales Alignment
• Application Risks and Integration

Key Value-Added Elements

• Deep experience from a team with experience in many implementations and with a developed set of release practice.
• In-house team collaboration and involvement to assure buy-in and continuity.
• A release management system that is strategically aligned to your customers, product and business model.

Value Received

• Lower risk in release management
• Higher customer satisfaction
• Clear separation of features, integration needs, and product strategies
• Faster and cleaner reactions to competitive market forces with lower costs