Why People Avoid Building Effective Software
Explore the typical reasons why individuals and organizations hesitate to build effective software despite its benefits. Learn about the learning curve, quality versus quantity trade-offs, the role of experts, and misplaced hopes that often prevent adopting best practices. This lesson prepares you to face these challenges realistically and encourages a commitment to building high-quality, sustainable software.
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As we learned in previous sections, Effective Software represents a high-quality artifact and a way to maximize ROI. If all these promises are genuine, who wouldn’t want to build a program on such terms? It turns out, people still hesitate. Below, we will go through some of the typical reasons. I want to present these challenges to encourage you to overcome them, and set realistic expectations.
Before we go any further, you should know that you have chosen a difficult path for yourself. But also, it’s not an impossible one! Stemming from a place of low-risk tolerance, the suggestions presented here are quite reasonable. This should further assure you that matters are not hopeless at all.
Learning curve
I have collected all the necessary skills to build Effective Software throughout my entire career. At the time of writing this, my skills have developed for more than 17 years. Admittedly, it took me so long because I was not always sure of what I was seeking. But I made up my mind on ...