product development vs IT services
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Answer / anjali jain
Product development involves :
1. Idea Generation
2. Idea Screening
3. Concept Development and Testing
4. Business Analysis
5. Beta Testing and Market Testing
6. Technical Implementation
7. Commercialization
Whereas IT Services involves delivery of some key services
e.g. Implementation, Testing, Infrastructure Support,
Database Support etc.
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Answer / raj chaitanya
IT services is a broad definition that may involve
Infrastructure services, data services, application
development, maintenance, Testing etc.. which may be for an
internal client or external client. Here the
requirements/specifications/service levels are set by
clients, internal or external. Also the term of these
services is definite as specified by the project and the
deliverables are delivered.
whereas Product Development is a specific activity of
development of products where the
requirements/specifications/service levels are decided
internally within the company. The development cycle for a
product is different from that of a regular IT services as
in it depends on the life of a product and how it evolves
and changes over a period of time.
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Answer / ravi
Services !! yuk!! improves your management skills
Product development improves you techincal as well as
management skills.
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Answer / shri
Product requirements evolve over period of time. Lot of
emphasis on customization. Technically challenging.
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Answer / santhoshrv
Product development is not dependent on client but where as
IT services is dependent on client.
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Answer / sri
Product development involves in all the SDLC activities i.e
requirement gathering,analysis,design,code
building,testing ,implementation and maintanance where as
incase of IT services you will be given work in pieces and
you may not require to follow entire SDLC procesess,like
attending the calls from customer,resolve the issues in a
given amount of time and update the status/escalate if you
can not resolve the issue in a given amount of time.
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