Remote work is booming due to the influence of Covid19. However, even before this devastating worldwide event, there has been a growing trend towards remote work. Software development is one industry that can lend itself towards remote work - so long as you have the right tools in place to do development as professionally and as close to in-person abilities as possible.
Software development can be a tricky process. If you don’t get it quite right then projects can end up on the scrapheap and with a few different annoyed parties to boot. While there are some common problems that can crop up in development, knowing what they are and how they come about will help you to avoid them.
With shifting goal-posts driven by investor and market conditions, a fair chance of having pivot points, and an uncertain future, developing software that can be modified or redesigned easily is critical. Having Agile practices as an underlying piece of your software development workflow gives you insurance that hours put into development will not be ‘wasted’ in the event of big changes.
Test early, test often! Test early, test often! If you’ve ever attended a Software Engineering 101 class you will have heard this phrase drilled into your brain. Why? Because the earlier and more often you do your software testing, the less bugs persist in your code through to production.
Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) is a relatively new type of platform offered in the cloud. These are cloud services designed to help build, train, and then run predictive models incorporating machine learning (ML). ML can be handy for any organisation, whether it’s in accurately predicting sales data for the next month in a small business, through to a large enterprise building a custom chatbot for customer service.
One of the key pillars of Agile is trusting teams to self-organise. In practice, this often looks like teams picking their own tools to use. While it might sound like a scary, messy concept, if you have good talent they’ll be motivated to stay organised and on track with whatever solution they choose - or roll over to a better one when they find it.
Fixed price contracts can be rather tricky in a Scrum environment. Classic software development and Agile software development are very different from one another, and things that work in one environment don’t necessarily work in another.
Read moreThe simple answer is, yes. Agile teams still need to adhere to the basics of testing, however, their approach allows them to go about it quite differently.
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