Lazsa Use Cases
Lazsa is a self-service product development platform with multiple capabilities that help you achieve several business use cases. This sections lists down a few important use cases like Portfolio and Product Management, Release Orchestration, Product Development with DevSecOps that you can achieve using the Lazsa Platform
Portfolio and Product Management
In today’s data-driven world, the more data and visibility you have, the better the decision making. The success of your business is defined by the choice of products you make, type of customer segments you cater to, and markets by geography that you target. Aligning requirements to business goals and prioritizing budgets and resources to value-driven products is instrumental in achieving the desired business outcome for your organization. For this you require portfolio management with a comprehensive view of all the products your company produces and portfolios with which the products are aligned. Portfolio management brings agility to manage market changes, competition, or even regulatory requirements.
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| Strategic alignment |
Align your products with business goals and assess the alignment to reduce risk and make decisions for ultimate ROI. Create a product portfolio that includes:
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| Resource Planning and Management |
Provide visibility of resource requirement, availability, allocation, and skillsets across products and portfolios to manage resources optimally.
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| Planning and Reporting |
Reports to assess execution of plans and adjust the plans based on changing customer and market requirements.
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Release Orchestration
With cloud computing, release cadence for products has moved from years and months to weeks. Fast- paced releases need a well-oiled engine to manage multiple products, releases and their inter-dependencies. A release train is a release calendar which is planned in advance and helps manage releases efficiently. Products and features align with the release train for better planning and execution.
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Why should you use the Release Train concept?
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It provides release schedule to all teams, stakeholders, and customers ahead of time.
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It provides a framework for different product teams to coordinate and align their work.
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It provides a framework to identify cross-product dependencies and resolve them systematically.
How does Lazsa help you manage Release Trains?
Lazsa – the self-service development platform helps you manage your releases efficiently during your product development journey by using the release train concept in the following ways:
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| Manage Release Trains |
Create an overall release calendar. Create a release train that includes:
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| Add Releases to Release Trains |
Create releases that include:
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| Associate products with a release and track progress |
Facilitate products to be part of existing releases:
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Associate a product with a release
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Product Development with DevSecOps
Lazsa: the self-service product development platform helps various stakeholders within your organization through the idea-market journey of creating digital products, by enhancing productivity and quality, while ensuring security of the digital products that you create.
The productization journey goes through several stages and the Lazsa platform infuses governance and security at every stage by providing automation, templates, approval workflows, and industry-best practices, removing bottlenecks and accelerating the time to market of your products.
Use Case:
| What you want to acheive | Description | How can you achieve this using Lazsa |
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| Configure the platform |
Configure various settings to start using the platform for product development |
Configure the various areas of platform setup that include:
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| Create Teams, Add Users, and Assign Roles to users | Create teams to work on products, add users to teams and assign appropriate roles to users. Create custom roles if you need roles with specific permissions. | |
| Create Product Portfolio |
Create portfolios to group and manage products catering to various customer segments, or domains appropriately. Portfolios include:
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| Create Products |
Create products, add them to appropriate portfolios to align them with business goals. Products include:
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| Create Release Trains |
Create Release Trains to manage multiple releases and dependencies:
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| Define Requirements |
Business Executives define the business requirements and get them approved through an approval workflow, and link them to stories in Agile tool. Business requirements include:
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Define Business Requirements |
| Design Artifacts |
Based on business requirements, create artifacts like approach documents, UI mockup designs:
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Create Designs |
| Develop the product |
Add tools and tech stack required to develop the product and start coding, developer activities include:
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| Deploy the code |
Promote code from one stage to another and create multiple stages with:
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| Gain visibility into DevOps pipeline | View statistics related to performance of the team across sprints during application development, security issues in code repositories, best practices followed by the team, and overall efficiency of DevOps pipeline. | |
| Executive Dashboards |
Provides insights to Executive and Business teams into various aspects of the business that include:
Provide insights to Technical teams about product development process that includes:
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Data Pipeline Studio
This is the age of big data with a humongous amount of data getting generated every day through various channels. This data must be cleansed, processed, transformed, and analyzed to draw actionable insights. The data used for analysis or AI/ML models must be of high quality in order to make reliable and accurate business decisions. Lazsa’s Data Pipeline Studio helps you to create a data pipeline from source to visualization stages within a few clicks and with minimal coding requirements and provides accurate insights from the data.
Use Case
| What you want to acheive | Description | How can you achieve this using Lazsa |
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| Create Teams, Add Users, and Assign Roles to users | Create teams to work on products, add users to teams and assign appropriate roles to users. Create custom roles if you need roles with specific permissions. | |
| Create Product Portfolio |
Create portfolios to group and manage your data products logically.
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| Create Products |
Create products, add them to appropriate portfolios to align them with business goals. |
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| Create Feature |
Create a feature in which you want to create your data pipeline. |
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| Define Requirements |
Define the business requirements for the data pipelines that you want to create and get them approved through an approval workflow, and link them to stories in Agile tool.
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Define Business Requirements |
| Design Artifacts |
Based on business requirements, create artifacts like approach documents, UI mockup designs:
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Create Designs |
| Develop the product |
Add the required tools and tech stack to develop the product and create a data pipeline with the following stages:
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| Gather data from multiple sources like social media posts, CSVs of downloaded feedback forms |
In the data source stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required nodes configure them:
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Data Sources |
| Combine the data coming from various sources |
In the data integration stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required tools like:
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Data Integration |
| Store the combined data |
In the data lake stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required data lake:
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Add Snowflake as a data lake |
| Group or combine data for analysis |
In the data transformation stage that is added to the pipeline, add the required data transformation tool:
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| Improve the quality of the data |
After data transformation, the data is pushed into the data lake. From here the data goes through the data quality stage:
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Data Quality |
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