Software Development Best Practices

The software developer may think that it's possible to complete all tasks sooner than is realistic. However, it's usually on contrary.

Software development projects turn more complicated as they scale. Increased collaboration between multiple teams (often geographically-dispersed) can lead to a greater degree of confusion, and subsequently — loss in productivity due to information asymmetry and knowledge gaps. If you’re looking for ways to tune up your development process, value stream mapping (VSM) is a tool that can help.

The second-system effect or second-system syndrome is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

"Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." (Fred Brooks -- The Mythical Man-Month)

Building one to throw away is too often used as an excuse for not doing the job properly. That means that you don't actually encounter enough of the issues in the process to learn enough to make it a good use of anyone's time. And doing it properly, only to throw it away, is even more wasteful.

It is now becoming more common for businesses and teams to use a range of tools and approaches for testing and developing solutions to problems designed to minimise the pain and hassle of introducing change. These tools include things like Proof of Concept (POC), Prototyping, Pilot or even MVP.

The article below shows twenty of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make.

CMMI is a newer, updated model of CMM. SEI developed CMMI to integrate and standardize CMM, which has different models for each function it covers. These models were not always in sync; integrating them made the process more efficient and flexible. CMMI adds Agile principles to CMM to help improve development processes, software configuration management and software quality management.

Analyzing risk is an important part of the project planning process. Having a clear sense of the project risks you face, can help you prevent or prepare for upcoming risks. In this article, learn about seven of the most common project risks. Then, empower your team to find solutions before these issues derail important initiatives.

Feature flag-driven development allows you to quickly release iterations of your features to market, receive feedback, improve, and redeploy. It allows you to roll out features to small segments of your users in order to mitigate risk all while receiving valuable feedback.