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.