Feature development optimization in PokerNews website

The following paper focuses on PokerNews.com website’s feature development. The purpose of the paper is to propose managerial suggestions how to optimize the model of development in terms of time.Rapid software development has become an important factor in informational technology business area. Increasing complexity of software and low barriers of entry, which result in hyper competition, force companies to review their development methods. The company described in this paper also faces same challenges. In several years time required for feature development has raised substantially and with rapidly changing environment posses serious issues to company’s success.Thesis aims to fulfill these goals:To describe business environment in which company operates, this is achieved through external analysis which describes market of company’s activity and trends affecting the company. To analyze company’s strength and weaknesses, this goal is sustained through internal analysis which uses SWOT analysis as well as description of company’s cost structure and distribution channels.To describe company’s current feature development process, this is achieved through analysis of current processes and their correspondence to theoretical models on which they are based also problems arising in the development process are summarized.Discover the reasons of long feature development time, this goal is attained via empirical research where stakeholders of company’s IT department are presented... [to full text]