Working on software with a group of talented developers can be extremely fulfilling, and at times, frustrating. There are plenty of beginner’s pitfalls to avoid while ensuring that the quality and goals of your project are met at the same time. Things can get even trickier when the software developer team has to take care of the project from home. It might have been easier in an office setting, but the dynamic changes entirely when working at home.

Anything on the internet is accessible to the public. That is the truth of the digital age we live in. Unless you take certain steps to ensure security, those with malicious intent can easily find the vulnerabilities in your products and use them to infiltrate your systems. The software development life cycle is no different.

Pulling off a project can be intimidating at times. When you get a bit of software into the mix, things can easily spiral out of control in an instant. Problems can happen out of nowhere—from disinterested stakeholders to scheduling issues.

Collaboration is an important factor in reaching success—especially in business. Your team members work best when they are in an environment that allows them to freely connect with each other. When a company values collaboration, all team members feel they belong to something bigger than themselves. This, in turn, establishes positive feelings that can boost productivity and cohesive creativity.

In recent years, more companies are choosing to fulfill their software development needs through outsourcing. Of course, to ensure that the quality of the output meets their standards, it’s important that such organizations clearly understand the factors to consider when selecting a software developer to work with.

If you’ve been working in the software development industry, or have dealt with it under some capacity, you’ve probably heard of Agile Development, as well as the newer subset, Scrum, which has been making its way into the scene. Although Scrum is just subset of Agile, they are so commonly used together that they are often confused with one another. Here, we will explain in more detail what each of these methodologies is and how to relate to each other.

Do you feel like your software development team has been dragging lately? Have you thought about onboarding a new team member or outsourcing something for which you don’t feel confident in your team? Maybe you’ve even considered firing someone?

Outsourcing is becoming more common and instead of questioning if you should do it, discover what type of outsourcing your company should do. Should you outsource in your own country? In your state or city?  If you do it in another country, how do you decide which one to use?

While the software development practice of DevOps has been growing in popularity and implementation, it has not yet advanced. Its effectiveness has been debated, but many feel that it remains mostly misunderstood, and thus undervalued. It is not a software developed life cycle model but is instead the practice of integrating the relationship between development and IT operations, thereby increasing efficiency and quality of the software development process.

Software development procedures are changing ever more quickly, at what seems like an exponential rate. This change is good for some, bad for others. One department that is finding this to be quite a nuisance is the quality assurance (QA) and testing department. QA testers track and maintain the quality of software that is based on both the internal and external features of that software. The external condition is determined based on how the software performs in real time scenario operational mode and how useful it is for users. The internal quality looks at the more ‘intrinsic’ aspects, dependent on the quality of the code and, unfortunately for QA testers, has become an easily automated process.