Product Development Software

Product development software is a type of computer tool to be used for developing & managing the projects and activities. There are a lot of things to do in this area, and without proper organization the work at creating new products will be screwed just in the bud. It is necessary to maintain productivity on a typical workflow:

1. concept inventing;
2. Proving the concept;
3. projecting and development;
4. modeling and prototyping;
5. Creation and verification of pilot parcel of products;
6. Certification and quality tests;
7. Preparation for full-scale production;
8. Full-scale production;

Areas where software can be applied:

There are some factors that can to be secured, supported and served by such software:

• Timeline – it is necessary for company management to plan their schedule of release target dates for new products to know when they are ready to enter the market with new offerings. Usually, these dates are set in a result of complex researches including study of the external marketing situation and new products engineering, so a variety of different factors are considered, therefore it is important not to delay with delivering the new products. Software can assist to maintain and follow the calendar where a realistic timeline should be represented.

• Activities – while a timeline represents general steps and milestones, there is a list of smaller operations that are performed by individuals or units. It is necessary to introduce and explain personal activities and tasks to every team member, so software can be used to bring more organization and facilitation in this process.
• Report – company management needs receiving recent information on all achievements taking place within a team. Software can be used for status tracking (whether statuses of particular activities or workflow deliverables) and measurements. This approach will reduce amount of paper engaged into informational turnover, as well as will reduce number of face-to-face transactions between people (to economize time).

VIP Task Manager is a program that can be used to plan and control tasks (whether individual or for a group), and to establish computer-based representation of workflow and procedures to be managed and driven to success. With a help of this client-server application you can compose, share and co-edit schedules to ensure that everyone in the team is properly informed on timeframes of the project.