Services
Whether it's called a product life cycle process, or a time-to-market process, most companies employ some documented phase/gate methodology to bring their product to market and support it once it's there. The typical process can be described in six generic phases: investigative, design, implementation, test, release, and maintenance. PCS's business is to provide consulting and contracting services that either support, enable, or produce some or all of the deliverables due at each process gate.
Below is a partial list of phase activities and gate deliverables, organized by phase, that we can provide services for:
| Investigative | Test |
| Requirements | Execution of Test Plan |
| Functional Specification | Deficiency Reports |
| Competitive Analysis | Corrective Actions |
| Benchmarking | |
| Feasibility Studies | Release |
| Product Surveys | Release Media |
| Technology Comparisons | Release Notes |
| Automated Installation | |
| Design | Users Documents |
| Analysis and Design | Maintenance Documents |
| Test Plans | |
| Maintenance | |
| Implementation | Code Maintenance |
| Software Code Development | System Maintenance |
| System Integration | Direct Customer Support |
| Indirect Customer Support |