Time to Market
You need to deliver new products, services, features and applications to the market at an unprecedented and accelerating pace. Software has a critical impact on your ability to deliver – whether it is embedded in the products you sell, or is a part of your business systems. Software can give you competitive advantages and offer many cost benefits, but you must successfully manage the risk and complexity software brings to development and delivery processes.
Long cycle times for developing, changing and fixing software will impact your organization in many ways including loss of market share, loss of revenue, and decreased customer satisfaction. To reduce cycle times and accelerate time to market, it is important to understand the core challenges software places on your organization, as well as how they can be addressed.
The table below lists common challenges that impact time to market, along with the MKS platform capabilities that will help you solve them.
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| Lack of Software Quality Late development cycle defects and breakage is a primary cause for delays and missed delivery dates. |
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| Inability to Manage Growing Product Lines Managing each product, version, or variant separately leads to redundancy, inefficiency, quality issues, and waste that delay projects. |
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| Late Cycle Rework A specialized quality issue that is very preventable, but contributes as much as 40% to the average project lifecycle. |
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| Process Inefficiency and Waste Process has an exponential impact in the schedule and economics of software; lean concepts can help. |
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| Disconnected Tools and Repositories "Best-in-breed" tooling leads to broken processes, lack of integration, and poor productivity. Even integrated suites lack the coherence to drive development optimization. |
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