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7 Sins Of Software Development

CIO, Thursday, October 5,2023

From choosing the wrong methodology to falling too hard for the latest trend, the output of even great app dev teams can suffer due to tendencies, temptations, and habits that can at times be our own undoing.

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. If one character is out of place, the entire stack can fall.

And that's just the technical part. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.

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