Six Pillars Of Effective Software
Understand the six pillars of effective software that address common challenges in development. Learn how to meet user expectations, avoid defects, scale horizontally, eliminate dedicated support costs, accelerate progress, and maximize return on investment. This lesson equips you with foundational concepts to improve software quality and delivery.
While the pillars express the intent, they can also create confusion, disagreement, and resistance. This split in opinions happens because each of us is unique, and we look at things differently. Some will say that the problems the course tries to fix do not exist at all. Others will say that there is no solution to them or that the issues themselves are not right.
To align our vision, let’s dive into what each pillar means.
1. Meet users’ expectations
This pillar tries to solve any of the following problems:
- Developers closely follow requirements that the domain experts write, but customer satisfaction still keeps dropping with every release.
- Developers write software by using all the modern tools and technologies, but the program is impractical to use by the end-users.
- Developers do not fully understand what domain experts want, and there is a constant challenge in collecting knowledge.
2. No defects
For a start, let us agree that defect-free software is a reality. It is often the case that engineers ...