I’m solving the Advent of Code 2022 pushing all the code to GitHub and I’m also following the Advent of Cyber 2022. [Read More]

Staffing issues typically originate from a failure to understand project requirements, flawed resource estimation, and poor management. In my current role, I have found that hiring and retaining good developers can be challenging in today’s marketplace due to their massive demand. High salaries and extravagant titles aren’t enough; as a company, we constantly balance keeping our employees challenged and engaged without over-working them. Furthermore, I have seen an increased desire for developers to work on truly meaningful and interesting projects. [Read More]

Documentation often suffers because clients and developers alike fail to recognise its importance, instead prioritising development activities to demonstrate progress and value. Documentation supports the entire lifecycle of software development: from helping individual developers recall why they built something in a certain way, to enabling continuity between developers, to facilitating user adoption. Thus, insufficient documentation can undermine the success of an entire project. [Read More]

Unrealistic resource estimation. Estimation is the primary basis to secure the resources required for project execution. Failure to understand the skills, labour hours, and time required to successfully address requirements frequently leads to budget overruns and project failures (McGrath, 2008; Lehtinen et al., 2014) [Read More]

Software testing: The lack of software testing and a proper strategy for conducting the aforementioned test, can push back a software project release immensely, or even worse, it can cause life-altering problems in the production. Additionally, when upgrading a legacy system to a new one, it is important to ensure the testing coverage has not been decreased and hence opened the project to a potential failure. [Read More]