Developers vs Software Complexity

I had the opportunity to talk with some of our outsourced developers to gain insight to current projects and challenges they face daily; work environment, budgets, managing expectations. The answers were surprisingly more detailed and insightful than expected. The majority (if not all) said that staying at pace with the changes in technology has been their biggest challenge. What does that mean? It means that developing applications is getting harder as software becomes more complex.?

A few of the older developers in the group recalled a time when they were focused on one thing: building proprietary code. Twenty-five years ago, there was no such thing as libraries, open source, or other external components. Yet today,??there are thousands of libraries that they must learn so that they can understand the dependencies that a scenario creates.?

When asked if they were worried software complexity would surpass their ability, many nodded their heads. What I learned, is that it can be exhausting when you combine a person’s experience with productivity when building new applications. Hence, many spoke about a real risk of burnout.??

The upside to the challenges faced today with software complexity and how developers are facing, is that there are a ton of tools available to automate time-consuming development, and others that help test activities across pipelines.

With software complexity and the current talent crunch, it is important to choose the best outsourcing company for future projects. Develop. Roam. Evolve?