Sustainable software development is a mindset coupled with an accompanying set of practices that enables the team to achieve optimal development pace for keeps. The need for a sustainable approach in software development agency is crucial, however, it is an unrecognized issue which many software companies are facing today.
One of the interesting paradoxes in the high-tech sector is while the pace of innovation is increasing, the expected lifetime of application is not decreasing, at least not in a related manner.
The more successful an application or tool is, the more demand is placed on the development team to make sure that the product remains scalable and future-ready. Take the example of products like PowerPoint, SAP, Oracle and Adobe Photoshop. These products still continue to be successful because the development teams of these products have been able to meet the user’s requirement despite changing technology, persistent competitive pressures and market conditions.
Unfortunately, there are myriad software development projects where there is a myopic focus on the features that are going to come with the next release, the next quarter, or the current issues such as defects reported by users. The software is both brittle and fragile as a result of factors such as over or under design, too many dependencies between code modules, temporary patches, code-then-fix mentality and more.
Unsustainable software development is the one in which teams are primarily reactive to the changes which are going in their ecosystem. By and large, the teams are caught in the vicious cycle of reacting to events and working longer hours akin to walking up a down escalator. This results in the project death spiral.
In contrast to this, in a sustainable development approach, which we at Systango (Amongst top software development companies London) ensure to practice, the development team remains proactive about the changes that are occurring in the ecosystem. The ability to be proactive is enabled by the attention to doing the work that is of the highest quality to the customers. And, along with this, keeping an eye on the continual environment despite the increasing complexity in the market.
Teams working on sustainable development are on a virtuous cycle, where they work to bring improvement in themselves and how they work together, hence boosting up their ability to deal with the increasing complexities. Sustainable software development lets teams adopt and foster practices that help them continually increase their efficiency, so that as the project gets more complex and customer demand increases, the team can continue at the same pace while keeping quality intact.
At Systango, a Software development company London, we focus on sustainable software development that enables our team to pay attention to the health of the software and minimize complexity.
