Discover the essential principles and strategies of Full Cycle Engineering for seamless project success.
Are you going to digitalize your business idea but don't know where to start? In practice, along with identifying technical and business requirements, when you start working on a digital solution, you must also consider choosing the right development approach.
In particular, full cycle software development can become one of the most reliable options. Let's find out below how to implement it in practice.
6 Essential Steps to Perform
Let's find out below what the full cycle product development approach is.
Turn your idea into a concept
An idea is a rather abstract concept, and to get closer to actually working on a software solution, you will first need to turn it into a concept. The concept is a more accurate and transparent understanding of what the development goals are, what technologies will be used in the project, and, in general, what will be its value for the end user.
After that, you will need to conduct market research to confirm or, vice versa, refute (correct) your concept. In this way, you will protect yourself from investing in obviously failed solutions.
Come up with clear and understandable requirements
Once you have defined the concept and confirmed its viability, you will need to detail it through the isolation of individual design requirements (technical and non-technical). To do this, you will have to combine the previously formulated goals and objectives of the project with a description of stakeholders and their individual expectations.
All this must be presented in the project documentation, with a description of acceptable time frames, budget, and other formalities.
Decide on the architecture
A project architecture is a description of the relationships between the key components of a project. The correctly chosen and designed architecture will be responsible for the ease of scaling and changing the project. The most popular architectural patterns are the following:
- Layered Architecture
- Tiered Architecture
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Microservice Architecture
However, keep in mind that ultimately, the final decision will be on your provider of full cycle product development services – that is, on a team that will transfer your formal requirements into the program code.
Engage in design
The principle of full cycle engineering is that before writing the program code for a project, you first need to involve UI/UX designers to implement its visual and provide the proper user experience, that is, understandable and simple for its target audience.
Start programming
Upon completion of work on the project design, you will need to engage programmers who implement the software part of the project: business logic, connection with databases, the backend (if necessary), as well as the frontend responsible for the reaction of the software solution to user actions.
Confirm the quality, deploy, and maintain
After the coding process is fully completed (including unit testing), you will need to conduct an end-to-end quality assurance procedure of the already assembled software solution to make sure that it meets generally accepted and your individual quality parameters. In case of bugs, the project has to be returned for rework to software engineers, and this happens until all the requirements from the documentation are achieved.
So, the project is now ready to be deployed. Note that as needed, you can also contact your full cycle product development company for its updating and technical support.
Final Thoughts
Now you know what is meant by the concept of full cycle engineering and can come to an informed decision about whether you should hire a full cycle software development company or not. If your answer is positive, you can choose us.
We will select full cycle engineering specialists with relevant expertise to ensure the proper quality and competitiveness of your future digital solution.
