Standardization is key to success in many industries. Software development is not the exception to this rule. Standards come in various flavors: languages and tools creators / vendors, users base community, local groups agreements, organizational governance guidelines, among others. There are many “authorities” and styles regarding how to do certain tasks when creating a software product. Organizations, and teams, must define, adopt, review, and constantly improve coding standards in order to have a more predecible process. The other side of this coin is to have “dogmatic” standards, rules without a clear business benefits or no benefits at all. I can help your company to define coding standards and to put in place a continuous improvement process in order to evolve those as business needs change over time.
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This service helps you solve or alleviate the following situations
- Modules, files and components has little or none commonalities making then hard to understand or maintain by developers.
- Mid and long term estimations are almost impossible to define because of heterogeneous codebases.
- Apply system-wide fixes or improvements, such as performance and security is almost impossible because each components address those issues in a different way.
- Learning curve for new team members is very long because each piece of software is like a unique artwork.
Benefits to your organization
- Enhanced efficiency by reducing the time required to understand the code-base, find bugs, and apply fixes.
- Reduce project failure risk by becoming less dependent on specific people.
- Help reducing complexity because everyone understand the solution and can suggest a better way to achieve the same results.
- Reduce surprises found only when doing the actual development work, and causing to miss delivery dates or required scope.
How this service is usually delivered
- By understanding your development process first and then working with development teams to define, document appropriate standards for your business needs.
- By defining and putting in place a process for continuous review and change standards in order to keep then relevant.
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