Essential Elements For Software Development Company

A software company which wants to establish itself in the market as a leading information

technology needs to have several traits in order to be successful in the competitive environment nowadays.

A software development company is a company which specializes either in developing software, developing a product which can either be for its internal purpose or for its external partners, performing either some phases or all the phases of the software development life cycle which consists of Requirements Gathering, Design, Coding, Testing, Post Implementation and Maintenance.

A software based company which performs end to end implementation of software is always preferable as compared to a company which performs only part development of software. The company specializing in software development needs to first analyze the requirements from the client, then on the basis of requirements need to prepare scope document, requirements specifications document also Known an SRS (software requirement specification) document.Once the scope document is in place and agreed upon by both the parties, then software requirements specification document is prepared which will have in detail the functional and non functional specifications to be built.

The requirements can be represented in the form of UML (Unified Modelling Language) specifications by preparing use case which interaction of the actors with the system to be built. Use Case helps the coding team in understanding the functionality to be built and represents the behavior of the system and how the software will work along with the functional flow. In the design phase the data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams are prepared which help in the coding later in terms of how the database would look like and tables present in the database.

Data flow diagrams show how the data flow in the system through various entities. The design phase is divided into two parts logical design and physical design. Data flow diagram and ERD come in the logical design phase.

Once the design is ready the coding begins wherein the designs are converted into code as per the specifications wherein the core work of development team starts. Coding takes the most significant amount of time in the software development life cycle phase.Once the coding is complete the testing phase starts wherein bugs re checked for as well as the functionality to be implemented are checked.Testing plays a crucial role in ensuring that the software is functioning as desired and several aspects of the software are checked in terms of how user friendly it is, all the outputs which come after entering the inputs come as expected.

The main reason why Indian companies are quite successful in IT outsourcing is that the workforce in India is very good in terms of their IT skills as well as there is a lot of competition among companies here for projects as well as the cost advantage to outsource to companies here is huge as compared to any other country. The main difference nowadays in terms of the work done by the software companies is not significant in terms of cost advantage but is more focused towards customer service and working together as partners not as a customer and employee kind of model but more of mutual relationship which serves the benefit of both the organizations.

One of the most important element that must be present in a software company is that it should have its employees how can can read and write fluently and also while speaking English should have neutral accent preferably so that people across the globe can understand them easily.One can find several projects listed on various bidding portals and online portals clearly mention that they people who can converse easily in English as they need to interact on a regular basis on skype and other medium of communication.It is not just imperative for the management team of a software company to be able to interact with the clients but also all the members of technical team should also be able to converse fluently with their clients.

Communication plays a very important role is ensuring that the requirements are properly captured and documented so that there is no ambiguity later on at later stages of the project were making changes is quite expensive as well as can lead to conflict in interests.

Another very important for a software company to be successful is that it should offer flexible pricing models as per the requirements of the client. For example if a client wants a project to be delivered at a fixed price as compared to a client which has a small project to be executed could be either in an hourly hourly model where the client pays according to no of man hours spent on the project. One man hour is equivalent to one man working for an hour.

Usually a man day consists of one person working for 8 hours in a day. Usually estimate is measured in terms of man hours or many days.

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