The more I get deeply swamped in this software project deployment stuff, the more I realized that – the success of any project no matter how huge or small the project is lies solely on the kind of development team you put together.
Let’s bring this to life, typically a software
development team should comprises of:
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Product Designer(UI/UX Expert)
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Project Manager
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Business Analyst
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Front end & Back-end Developer
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Quality Assurance manager
- DevOps Engineer
As you can see, the variety of roles in software development
team is far more complex than “just developers”. Writing the code is actually
the easiest part, and even for a developer, it’s not the most time-consuming
activity. There are dozens of factor contributing to the project success and
failure, from
the top of my head:
- the business idea/process itself,
- the user stories, journeys and look and feel
of your application,
- the stability, and reliability of the app,
- the quality and security of your system,
- the architecture of the solution,
- efficient algorithms,
-
adequate risk
management… and I could go on and on.
Yea, it is much safer to assemble good
developers with experience in writing well-structured and clean codes, they are usually still not enough to ensure the project’s success, there is need to ensure that you include all the crucial people in your
development team
from inception.
According to an old saying, “two heads
are better than one”. It’s simple math that two developers will deliver a
result faster than one. Plus, the more people working on a project, the greater
the chance that one of them will come up with a good idea or an important
update.
The challenge comes when the client
hires a developer and a project manager to develop an application. Yes, you can
get the result but I bet you it will not be the one that stand the test of
time. There is no way, a project manager and a developer will play overlapping
roles for a product designer, Quality assurance, DevOps engineer etc and there
wont be cracks. Even if the solution works, it’s just a matter of time before
you start seeing the cracks.
The best part, however, is team size doesn’t really matter. You
don’t need to have all those specialists all the time hired full-time. One of
the best advantages of partnering with a software development firm is the flexibility you get – we can assist you to engage whichever
resources you want on your project,
whenever you want it.
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