Making Sharewares
by iDog
This should also be suitable for a tiny/small software company if it wants to have its own products.
- Get an idea
- Market investigation:
- Find existing similar software products, try them or analyze them, list their pros and cons
- decide if it's necessary or meaningful to make this idea a software product
- Analysis
- Use the analysis result, decide the shining point of the product
- Make a list of features: ones included in the first release, and ones to be added.
- Design
- High level design, document it.
- Choose programming language
- Search for existing reusable code/algorithm, analyze their copyright.
- Detailed design, document it
- Programming & Testing
- Write code, test cases
- Debug
- Write comments and documents
- Write manual
- Releasing, Promoting & Selling
- Customer Support
- Bug fix, Version up.