Luxoft Product Development and Maintenance offering consists of the following:

1. Technical and consulting services, such as:

• Specification and Mock-ups
• Product Design
• Product Engineering
• Product Enhancement
• Product Maintenance
• Product Support

2. PDM environment provision services

Choice of methodologies universally adopted for software product development, such as Agile, Luxoft Agile Process (LAP), XP, RAD and others as well as traditional development methodologies such as RUP. PDM team staffing services, ensuring the selection of individuals who are most suitable for work within the PDM environment in terms of expertise, motivation, discipline, experience and other personal and professional traits. Luxoft PDM Team Selection Methodology (LUX PDM TSM) used.
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3. IT infrastructure provision services, including the supply of tools for the distributed PDM environment.

Thus, the Luxoft PDM service fulfills tasks concerned with carrying out our customers’ strategic product vision as well as tactical activities such as creating an efficient development environment, fully staffed and qualified development teams, establishing objectives and applying practices to achieve these objectives. In case of continuous collaboration with the client teams, PDM service may be extended to contribute to vision and goal formulation of our clients.

As part of the LUXline portfolio, Luxoft PDM customers may take advantage of additional company services and offerings such as Luxoft Client Engagement Framework Luxoft Development Centers (former ODC), Centers of Expertise (CoE), and Luxoft Training Center.

PDM offers services tailored to meet the needs of small-to-medium size independent software vendors (ISVs) who are working on developing a new product, expanding functionality, or customizing existing products. This is a growing market because ISVs, who need to focus on core strengths, are looking to outsource non-core development.  Increasingly, venture-backed software companies are required by their investors to have a sound outsourcing strategy. 

And industry studies predict shifts in IT offshoring from low level services and finding efficiencies to the top of the pyramid – product development. These shifts will signify moves from the captive centers set by some software companies to third-party provider units that are operational from the first day. 

We know ISVs will be interested in PDM because we have received numerous requests from ISVS for this type of service or with very special product development requirements.

• Flexibility in choice of a variety of development methodologies, including Luxoft Agile Process (LAP) that is designed specifically for distributed PDM.
• Efficient communication and linguistic skills (90% English fluency) of our personnel. 
• Efficient and highly disciplined development teams expertly selected to work productively in the product development environment. 
• Excellent software development experience, leverage of tools/reusable components libraries, use of proprietary best practices and taking advantage of Luxoft quality standards in software development.
• Centers of Expertise, providing efficient knowledge management services.
• Proven and flexible Luxoft Client Engagement frameworks, which provide for smooth and risk-free outsourcing experience. 

• Reduced production costs.
• Improved productivity, leveraging economies of scale and scope, better flexibility, and accelerating core product time-to-market.
• Ability to scale potential for growth.
• Access to specific skills, know-how and additional services.

• A free choice of the development methodologies and their combinations, including Luxoft Agile Process designed specifically to address distributed product development.
• Customized client engagement framework targeting potential risks of the distributed product development.
• Proprietary PDM-tailored team selection methodology.

Luxoft is capable of using any traditional methodology according to the client requirements, however normally core of the Luxoft PDM is a flexible process framework, the Luxoft Agile Process (LAP), which combines the advantages of accepted agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum, SP, Evo and RUP. Agile software development focuses on keeping code simple, testing often, and delivering functional bits of the application as soon as they are ready. The goal of ASD is to build upon small client-approved segments as the project progresses rather than delivering one large application at the end of the project.

Agile Development allows the customer the ability to alter the application functionality and add new features based on feedback from key customers, market research data, and the competitive landscape.  Revisions occur often.  The traditional well-structured development plan that calls for highly documented business requirements and long intervals between product releases is no longer part of an accelerated time-to-market release plan.

Another important LAP feature is the focus on distributed development.   There is widespread belief that agile methodologies are not a good fit for offshore outsourcing.  The concern is that agile software development methodologies require very close interaction with the end user, product managers, business executives and project team.  Contrary to these beliefs, many agile techniques can be effectively applied in the distributed environment.  For example, LAP uses daily teleconference “Scrum” meetings for communication and progress tracking.  These frequent meetings serve to make everyone part of the team.  These meetings also make everyone’s work visible to the rest of the team.  There are no surprises because everyone is involved at each stage.