Product Development Outsourcing
Sustaining Engineering
Sustaining engineering often can be more challenging than developing a new piece of code. It requires a complete and comprehensive understanding of the existing architecture, design goals, key technologies, and functionality as it was originally envisioned. It demands a disciplined approach to provide a workable solution under a tremendous time pressure while introducing zero regression.
Augmentum understands this non-trivial nature of sustaining engineering and has been providing SLA based sustaining engineering services to software product companies by focusing on the fundamentals – knowledge acquisition and retention, software development and testing, and efficiency gained through experience.
When building a sustaining engineering team for each of our customers, Augmentum has a simple goal of reaching the steady state as quickly as possible to reduce any overhead incurred to our customers. Although each product has its own challenges, in general, Augmentum takes the following four-phased approach to building a sustaining engineering team.
Phases:
Reaching the steady state is achieved by rigorous training, feeding and caring of the team members, providing technical guidance and oversight, and proactive performance management.
Retaining learned knowledge is as critical to the success of any project as initial training, and Augmentum typically takes the responsibility of all subsequent and continuous training of the team and additional resources. As a result, Augmentum can mitigate risks of knowledge drain.
