Total Life Cycle Management is a matured, collaborative development solution that spans software product development from conceptualization to versioning and beyond. TLCM solutions deliver strategic advantages to both existing products and for proposed product development.

Product companies are faced with the challenge of maintaining the highest levels of customer support and responsiveness in parallel to feature expansions and new version development. Very often the secret of success in software products is the ability to maintain the existing customer base, protecting it against erosion, at the same time expanding to new horizons.

TLCM presents aggressive, cost-effective leverage to protect and expand the customer base. TLCM initiatives help extending the shelf life of products, sometimes avoiding the need to develop brand new versions to cater to new target markets.

As a collaborative development model, TLCM brings together the strengths of the product’s original architects and outsourced TLCM teams. The objective is to create a TLCM team that can complement ‘must have’ yet constrained initiatives for the future of your software products. TLCM is as more affordable help to cross business hurdles and achieve set targets.

For example, if you have a set of good technical resources having in depth knowledge on the product, then the TLCM team can work to build around the strengths of your development team. The TLCM team can focus on augmented resource bandwidth for faster deliveries, automated testing, process orientation, and R & D to support the core strengths of your development team. The workflow management, ROI, productivity and advantages of the TLCM model are explained in this document.