Product Development
Yojimbo Corp assists clients throughout the product development lifecycle, from product research and new product development to quality assurance and support activities.
In today's competitive global economy, effective executives must carefully allocate every penny. Startup firms, in particular, must conduct thorough research of appropriate technologies, platforms and features before making large financial committments. The team at Yojimbo Corp is prepared to guide you through these efforts.
By its nature, product development requires meeting requirements that are constantly changing. Once a company presents a development timeline to investors and customers, strict adherence to that timeline is critical. Software development teams emphasize product functionality, but they must adhere to the highest standards for code quality and software design. Every development resource must meet maximal quality standards in order to produce a scalable and robust product. Version control and end usage may be complex, especially considering multiple versions of the software. Fortunately, knowledge retention achieved by partnering with a trusted partner leads to higher productivity and thus lowers the cost of the engineering effort over time.
Because consumer software applications are designed to run in uncontrolled user environment, thorough testing becomes a critical part of the product development lifecycle. Software developers and product managers must have an extremely low tolerance for defects, as any problems will impact not only current customers, but deter new customers from using the product.
In today's competitive global economy, effective executives must carefully allocate every penny. Startup firms, in particular, must conduct thorough research of appropriate technologies, platforms and features before making large financial committments. The team at Yojimbo Corp is prepared to guide you through these efforts.
By its nature, product development requires meeting requirements that are constantly changing. Once a company presents a development timeline to investors and customers, strict adherence to that timeline is critical. Software development teams emphasize product functionality, but they must adhere to the highest standards for code quality and software design. Every development resource must meet maximal quality standards in order to produce a scalable and robust product. Version control and end usage may be complex, especially considering multiple versions of the software. Fortunately, knowledge retention achieved by partnering with a trusted partner leads to higher productivity and thus lowers the cost of the engineering effort over time.
Because consumer software applications are designed to run in uncontrolled user environment, thorough testing becomes a critical part of the product development lifecycle. Software developers and product managers must have an extremely low tolerance for defects, as any problems will impact not only current customers, but deter new customers from using the product.
New Product Development
Developing a new product is far more challenging than other forms of custom application development and requires a unique mindset. Yojimbo Corp’s proven processes, developers, and product development focus allow us to consistently meet the evolving challenges of new product development while staying within the planned budget and timeline. Close collaboration with our clients in an integrated model brings transparency, accountability and visibility to the development effort. By focusing on building a minimum viable product (MVP) and an Agile development process, Yojimbo Corp will quickly get your product to market, allowing you to continue enhancing by addressing real customer needs and requirements, in addition to the ideas of your product team.
UI Prototyping Services / Proof of Concept (POC)
Before jumping into full-scale product development, it is always wise to build a UI prototype. Yojimbo Corp has helped jump start over 20 start-up firms by building professional UI prototypes to help them begin product marketing or secure their initial round of funding. A more involved initiative, proof of concept (POC), is in some cases required to show the potential of your product to future investors or customers. The POC can also be used to mitigate technical risks and reduce the number of unknown factors when planning/budgeting for the full product development. Yojimbo Corp frequently develops POC to prove a new technology. For example, while at JDate.com, our founder developer a POC for sending "daily matches" emails containing photos of available singles to a select set of customers without a subscription, pioneering the concept and demonstrating a 100% increase in daily subscriptions volume. This feature is now standard for all internet dating sites.
Product Maintenance / Support
Product maintenance is challenging and expensive, especially for established products or retiring product lines with a large installation base. It is often difficult to keep talented software engineers motivated to support an existing product, especially if its running on an outdated platform. Yojimbo Corp has a full line of services to help clients manage and support product versions on legacy platforms and technologies. Yojimbo Corp also has a track record of successfully modernizing outdated systems by gradually introducing improvements inline with an agreed upon strategy. By utilizing the power of our team, our clients are able to support established products more cost effectively without fear of turnover or intellectual property loss.
All software platforms need critical bug support, troubleshooting and micro-enhancement support in order to keep their customers happy. For established companies, supporting the user base through a migration to newer versions represents a significant investment of resources, often deterring from new product development. Yojimbo Corp can reduce your expenses by helping you support and maintain existing product lines, retiring product lines, and older product versions. That enables your in-house experts to focus on developing new products or versions.
All software platforms need critical bug support, troubleshooting and micro-enhancement support in order to keep their customers happy. For established companies, supporting the user base through a migration to newer versions represents a significant investment of resources, often deterring from new product development. Yojimbo Corp can reduce your expenses by helping you support and maintain existing product lines, retiring product lines, and older product versions. That enables your in-house experts to focus on developing new products or versions.
Feature Development/Enhancements
Today’s rapidly changing markets and business models require that organizations enhance the functionality of their products as quickly as possible in order to stay ahead of the competition. Very often, in-house development teams lack the capacity to handle all the requests for additional feature within a competitive timeframe.
In these scenarios, Yojimbo Corp can serve as an extension to your existing team, working on feature developments in conjunction with your in-house team. This allows your company to take a more powerful or a new product to market more quickly and at a lower cost.
In these scenarios, Yojimbo Corp can serve as an extension to your existing team, working on feature developments in conjunction with your in-house team. This allows your company to take a more powerful or a new product to market more quickly and at a lower cost.