Principles for Proactive Product Maintainability
Explore key principles for maintaining software products proactively under tight deadlines. Learn how to balance core functionality with maintainability, build independent diagnostic tools, and create effective tests that focus on outcome rather than just configuration. This lesson helps you prepare products for easier upkeep and debugging in the long term.
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Software development rarely happens at a leisurely pace. There is a culture that encourages a fail-fast method by which developers learn what won’t work by implementing ideas quickly and can move on to a better approach if needed. Ideally, this version of the product must be rewritten in a better setting with a proactive mindset that prioritizes product maintainability. This will take time, divert resources, and push release dates in the wrong direction, and unfortunately not possible always. It is natural for the top-level leadership of an organization to prioritize time to market a product at its incipience over all else.
It is up to the engineer to put in their time and effort. They need to be proactive and come up with ways that would help ensure the ease of maintainability of the ...