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What are the stages of product development?
From the first whiteboarding session to its launch, every product has a life cycle.
When you understand your application's life cycle, you can better anticipate your application's future needs and how specific life cycle stages may impact its performance and structure.
The stages of product development
In this series of articles, we'll focus on the following stages of product development:
| Stage | Description |
|---|---|
| Developing | This stage involves designing and creating your product, including researching, prototyping, and testing. |
| Launching | In this stage, your product is introduced to the market and gets its first client. |
| Scaling | In this stage, the focus shifts towards expanding production capacity and optimizing processes to meet increasing demand. |
| Maintaining | This stage involves ongoing support, updates, and improvements to maintain the product's functionality, quality, and customer satisfaction. |
The other stages of product development
This article is part of a series. We have a Learning Center article for each stage in the product life cycle:
- What are the stages of product development?
- How do I monitor my application during development?
- How do I monitor my application during launch?
- How do I monitor my application when scaling?
- How to maintain my application post-development?
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