Source: medium.com
Most Software Is Never “Done”Category: Software, Business
Thoughts on Some Nature of Software Development and Technical Debt The annoying thing is that the resulting crufty code both makes developers’ lives harder, and costs the customer money.
The delivery of software — putting software into users hands — is like manufacturing but the development of software is everything but that.
The gist is that if once upon a time it took 30 minutes to reliably and confidently put the smallest changes into users hands and now it takes 15 more, it’s an indication that it’s probably wise to address the increase in time and nip it.
We do not need to care about cost of change for software that is not expected to change but that is usually not the case.
The delivery of software — putting software into users hands — is like manufacturing but the development of software is everything but that.
The gist is that if once upon a time it took 30 minutes to reliably and confidently put the smallest changes into users hands and now it takes 15 more, it’s an indication that it’s probably wise to address the increase in time and nip it.
We do not need to care about cost of change for software that is not expected to change but that is usually not the case.
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