Modern Product Engineering: Where DevOps and Cloud Go Hand in Hand

We have all witnessed a rapid disruption across various industries and businesses in the past few years. Product engineering has become really sophisticated over the years. Agility and faster time-to-market are the core focus of modern product companies and their customers, while developing and launching a product.

Product companies work on multiple product concepts with a core focus to solve business challenges. Most of these companies face the challenge of building innovative product engineering solutions that meet the needs of modern businesses, and launching them successfully in the market.

By embracing cloud and other digital technologies, there has been a shift in the way software products are developed and deployed, along with numerous other benefits. By using DevOps, both development and operations go hand in hand, and bring speed and agility to the business.

Before we dive deep into the benefits of using DevOps with cloud, take a look at some key considerations every product development company needs to follow for launching a product successfully.

1. Market Scenario: Analyse the market potential by studying the customer, their competitors, their capabilities, and cost potential.
2. Business Requirement: Document the requirements of the business and build a clear strategy to execute the project.
3. Product Roadmap: Build a product roadmap by elaborating on the various stages and phases of the product development and deployment lifecycle.
4. Product Design: In the case of new products, design the product by keeping user requirements, usability, and visual requirements in mind.
5. Product Engineering: Follow the product engineering best practices such as leveraging DevOps, and implementing test automation.
6. Project Management: Manage processes of resource allocation, communication, and project timeline effectively.
7. Capital and Funding: Plan and allocate money wisely to make sure your product launch is not hindered.
8. Launch Timing: Focus on launching the app on time by managing development bugs, change requirements and other such factors.
9. Usability Testing: Test your product for usability and performance testing before its launch.
10. Product Maintenance: Ensure product availability and maintenance by continuously monitoring the security, device updates, OS, servers and backup/restore.

On top of these processes, modern product engineering uses digital technologies such as cloud, IoT, mobility, and many more to develop and deploy products faster and reduce their release cycles.