Execution, Leadership, and Management

Importance of software development transformation

The technological world has changed 180 degrees since its inception. Nevertheless, many organizations that formed during the early days have not changed much since then. Hence, it has become very critical that these companies transform and adapt to the newly established environment. If they cannot revolutionize, their existence will soon be questioned due to the lack of competitive advantage.

The need for transformation is also relevant to how we build software. To realize what has happened to this field, let us recall that a couple of decades ago, engineers did not write unit tests, there was no open source community, and there was no such specialty as Tester or QA. Big waves of breakthroughs took place in software development, architecture, distribution, and scalability.

Therefore, it is highly critical for every engineering organization to transform and conform to today’s standards and demands.

Companies that are just forming should ensure that they meet the modern software development standards. Those who have existed for a while need to transform at the earliest possibility.

If transformation does not take place, produced software will not be worth the trouble. You will have to invest in building programs twice more than your competitors due to lower quality, higher human and technical resource costs, decreased customer satisfaction, and so on.

Achieving software development transformation

Transformation is a very complex task. In simple words, nobody comes to their everyday job and says, “we do things differently from now!”

Even if somebody says that, things do not change overnight. This problem is relevant for ...