.Software Development: The Dilemma

 

Have you had an unsuccessful software project experience before, wasting your time and money?

Well, you're not alone. Fully 75% of all software projects are overdue or never finish.

Unfortunately, many software projects do go haywire. Projects run late and go over budget. When the project is finally finished, the result is not even close to what you had in mind. Quality is not good. Once you put it into production and add load, your software begins to show unanticipated behavior. Memory leaks, crashes, slow response times, data corruption, and other "unexpected" results begin to show up very quickly. Fixing these problems is another story: They are hard to find, nearly impossible to fix, and they usually result in rewriting big chunks of code.

Everyone designs software these days, right? After all, there are so many "Software Made Easy" books and "Visual Development" tools out there that people cannot resist the temptation of giving this "become a pro in three weeks" career a try.

But when you pay money for software, you expect it to work. You expect it to work fast, work right, and stay up without crashing and interrupting your business. On top of that, it's reasonable to expect that your software will be adaptable to future functional and capacity requirements. That does not seem to be on the table of contents of the "Software Made Easy" books.

The fact is that software development is not easy and, honestly, not everybody knows how to do it right. To produce quality software, it takes years of experience, being intimately involved with different types of software projects, going through complete project lifecycles, and understanding how decisions that are made in the beginning affect the results in the end.

That's the type of experience that has made Millenique successful.

Millenique has a team of talented and experienced software developers with years of experience in engineering enterprise-class software. All of the team members have been through both the good and bad days of software development projects. The team shares a common vision in software development that comes from experience combined with academic education and research. Read on to see how software is developed at Millenique and what the key criterion for success is.



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