Product Strategy
What We Do
Accelerate your vision through strategic planning
It shouldn’t take years to get your product to market. Our product strategy approach helps you put your product into the hands of users in months, not years.
Go-to-Market FrameworkSM
From defining your vision and goals to a dependable roadmap and process, our Go-to-Market FrameworkSM promises faster time to market, team alignment around your vision, and clarity on projected timelines.
Go-to-Market Expertise
Vision & Goal Setting
Defined Release Types
Visualized Roadmap
Backlog Maturity ModelSM
Governed Process
KPI Measurement
Data-Driven Decisions
Multi-team Design
Product Ideation
From identifying your vision to prioritizing the highest-value features, our product strategists help you form a well-defined overview of how your product will allow users to accomplish their goals.
Product Ideation Expertise
Brainstorming Sessions
User Role Identification
Key Feature Identification
Feature Prioritization
Competitor Analysis
High-Level Roadmap
Target Device ID
Technology Fit Analysis
User Insights
Building a product users love means winning their hearts and minds. We help you determine the best way to exceed their expectations through research and analysis of your customer’s wants, needs, and desires.
User Insights Expertise
User Research
Persona Development
User Interviews
Environment Analysis
Computing Analysis
User Need Identification
Kano Analysis
Journey Mapping
Technical Strategy
A critical part of rapid software development is nailing down a key set of technical decisions up front to help guide the development team and avoid surprises. We’ll help you select the right technology and frameworks that deliver on your business needs and apply best practices to support your sales model.
Strategic Technical Expertise
Technology and Frameworks
Licensing Strategy
Security Strategy
Deployment Strategy
Multi-Tenancy Strategy
Tenant Provisioning Strategy
Development Strategy
High-throughput production of software applications requires a solid architecture and DevOps strategy. We’ve created a set of best practices, including our Ascendle Application ArchitectureSM—a lightweight, proven approach that supports rapid development and today’s best practices.
Strategic Development Expertise
Architecture Strategy
Source Code
QA Testing
Automated Testing
Test Environment
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment
Performance Testing
Execution Planning
Drive your business initiatives forward with a solid understanding of your development effort needs. Using our proven process for agile estimating and planning, we’ll rapidly create an estimate you can rely on and design your development team and delivery phases to promote rapid development.
Planning Expertise
Feature Size Estimation
Estimated Level of Effort
Schedule Projections
Dev Team Structure
Phased Implementation Strategy
Product Concept Validation
Before handing a product vision off to the development team, it’s important to validate the high-level concept of the product. We utilize a variety of tools to “pre-visualize” the product concept to ensure it will deliver on expectations.
Product Concept Expertise
Product Positioning
Summary of Capabilities
Sales Model
Business Process Workflows
User Workflows
Conceptual Wireframes
Clickable Prototypes
Assumptions and Dependencies
Feature Definition
When driving an agile development effort, it’s key to get into the details without slipping into a waterfall-style months-long specification process. We use lightweight techniques to complete the process in weeks, not months.
Feature Definition Tools
Feature Prioritization
Feature Sizing
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Scope
User Stories
User Story Mapping
Business Domain Model
Additional Requirements Definition
From regulatory standards to ensuring the product fits into corporate branding frameworks, we perform a lightweight analysis and capture the pertinent details of “everything else”.
Requirements Definition Tools
Applicable Standards
System Requirements
Performance Requirements
End-User Documentation Requirements
Labeling and Branding Standards
“There are a lot of companies who talk the talk, but Ascendle actually walks the walk.”
– David Young, Technical Product Owner, Honeywell
