The Top 12 Productivity Killers in Your Development Methodology
Find out what the 12 most troublesome facts of development are, and learn how they can affect efficiency.
by Laurent Ploix
January 16, 2007
hy are so many articles and books written about development methodologies? I believe it's because improving the efficiency of a development team is a never-ending battle. Technology keeps changing and teams must adapt or die, but adapting is time-consuming. Customers need fast development cycles with higher quality. With the advent of offshore outsourcing, developers now come from different countries, in different time zones, with different cultures. And as everybody does, developers tend to concentrate on tasks that are interesting and usually not the most productive.
In this complex development world, I have encountered very interesting issues as a team manager and developer. This article presents a formalized list of the most troublesome facts of development I've come across, and it offers some suggestions for handling them. (The original version of this listing was posted on my blog.)
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hy are so many articles and books written about development methodologies? I believe it's because improving the efficiency of a development team is a never-ending battle. Technology keeps changing and teams must adapt or die, but adapting is time-consuming. Customers need fast development cycles with higher quality. With the advent of offshore outsourcing, developers now come from different countries, in different time zones, with different cultures. And as everybody does, developers tend to concentrate on tasks that are interesting and usually not the most productive.
