Self-Directed Problem-Solving Approach for Successful Company Transformation
Development practices need to incorporate core principles for self-directed work
To be successful, companies must redefine their fundamental principles and re-evaluate themselves.
A transformation can take years to embed new principles into the company culture. If you are building a digital product, everything will touch software in one way or another.
Development practices need to incorporate core principles for better management. The real challenge lies not in the process itself, but in its implementation.
Open-source projects often release software early, even if it's incomplete or buggy. This approach, though it may lead to unstable software, fosters a sense of shared responsibility and collaboration among those interested in its improvement.
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Organize the development process around the team's learnings and check their work's results; base no objective metrics. Stop jumping into every project without understanding what the direction is.
People without knowledge about building software shouldn't be directing the work. Estimating it, suggesting how it needs to be done, or being part of the delivery. They should instead consume the provided solution, check it, and clarify any misunderstandings. Anything else is pure micro-management.
Address Bugs First and Reduce Technical Debt
Prioritizing quality over speed in software development is essential to avoid technical debt.
Accumulating bugs also makes it harder to predict the development of new features.
Ensuring predictability in software development and maintaining efficiency is essential. Fixing bugs can be time-consuming and unpredictable.
Addressing open bugs before moving forward with the schedule is crucial to avoid disruptions and delays in the project. As an engineering leader, it's vital to maintain high technical quality while focusing on core business goals.
Rushing through development can lead to unresolved bugs. Future issues and impact the customer experience and degrade your product.
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How Domain-Driven Design Helps Teams To Deliver Business Value
The best justification for using any technology or technique is to provide value to the business.
Developing software that delivers business value differs from developing ordinary business software. Use Domain-Driven Design to model a complex domain in the simplest possible way. Never use DDD to make your solution more challenging.
We developers are technical thinkers. Technical solutions come to us. It's not that thinking is terrible. There are times when thinking less is better.
A Domain, in the broad sense, refers to what an organization does and the world it operates in. When working with a specific domain, think of the standard terms and actions of the model. The core of a business is its business process, which developers must focus on automating.
The Domain model serves as the foundation of an application. The framework or any specific tool does not dictate the business process; the proper domain automation does.
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