Product Definition
Envisioning, Defining and Architecting Commercial Grade Software
As the White Rabbit said to Alice, "If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will take you there."
At Lionbridge, we think it’s part of our job to help clients decide precisely where a product is headed…even what product to build. Often, our R&D teams engage at the very beginning of an engineering journey, from the moment of the first idea.
We break the definition process into three highly-collaborative steps: a) Helping Envision a new product through market domain and feasibility analyses; b) Fully Defining business processes, features, and requirements; and c) Architecting the technical infrastructures and practices that will lead to a successful engineering project.
No matter where we join the process, we make sure we’re doing three kinds of thinking:
Thinking forward: We create extensible, maintainable, portable, and scalable architectures—architectures with a future. Later, we can help your global customers and partners move into that future.
Thinking simply: We construct products which are direct, discoverable, and easy to use. That means understanding not just current trends and expectations, but looking toward paradigm shifts which will clarify the user experience. Of course, "thinking simply" shouldn't just benefit end users. We know it's critical to build a product architecture that has the elegance of simple design: easy to construct, extend, and maintain.
Thinking financially: Your revenue depends on rapidly launching successful products that align with user needs, but your profit depends on controlling cost. That means smart sourcing, prototyping, and iterative test/planning cycles. And, of course, it means thinking fast.
With the right thinking in place, we find the path is usually easy to follow.
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