CIStems core competency is in working closely with software product companies to translate their ideas into products rapidly using a repeatable process.
CIStems product engineering services enables the Clients to focus on their core business activities including market research, product road map development, product management, marketing and sales.
Our clients include top venture funded companies from Silicon Valley such as Valdero funded by Kleiner Perkins, Informance funded by Mayfield, Aceva funded by Accel Partners. With CIStems these companies have tapped into a dedicated resource that is talented, scalable and economical. Our experience with best practices in product engineering has resulted in rapid ROI for the clients.
Product Engineering Services Model
Our product engineering services model is based on creating a dedicated team that extends the in house engineering team of the client. The fact that the extended engineering team is dedicated to the client offers several advantages including team stability, knowledge retention, effective communication, team loyalty, and better interpersonal relationships.
CIStems offers flexibility in the degree of control the client exercises over the extended engineering team. Based on client's own preference, the client's management control may lie anywhere between loosely coupled On-site and Off-shore teams to tightly coupled teams.
Agile Approach
Most Software Application Development Projects are based on reasonably close-ended requirements, and a waterfall life cycle with some degree of flexibility can be used to develop and deliver the applications. The reliance is primarily on heavy weight processes that can be used to capture the requirements in detail.
Software Product Development stands in stark contrast to Application Development. Software Product Development is evolutionary in nature, with product specifications changing dynamically based on the customer requirements and competitive pressures.
This distinction in orientation leads many software services firms, who have been primarily working on application development projects, fail in delivering to the dynamic requirements of a product company.
CIStems product engineers use light weight agile approach to software development and are well versed with the associated themes including continuous builds, automated testing, short iteration cycles, pattern based development, and refactoring.
Distributed Development
Use of extended engineering team necessitates effective implementation of distributed development processes. CIStems is also adept at the art of distributed development through effective use of VPN, shared source code repository, defect tracking system, and collaboration and knowledge sharing frameworks.
Services Offered
We offer services at all stages of product life cycle including developing proof of concept, product realization, product reengineering, product migration, product maintenance and enhancement, product implementation, and customer support.
Depending on the team composition, the extended engineering team could contribute to architecture, design, development, quality assurance and control, and documentation.
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