Venkat Guntipally Reveals the Best Practices That Make Software Development Projects Work Better
Oct 27, 2020 (TS Newswire via Comtex) — Venkat Guntipally is a dynamic and highly skilled IT professional having experience of more than 20 years in managing all the different phases of a software development life cycle (SDLC). His impeccable leadership qualities, along with his comprehensive technical knowledge, have helped him in achieving a standard of excellence that he has set through his persistent efforts, hard work, and perseverance. Most recently, he is associated with AT&T Labs Inc., one of the largest technology research centers in the US, as the Scrum Master. He has ideated, formulated, as well as implemented various technical solutions for business initiatives. He has extensive experience in designing, developing as well as maintaining a myriad of projects belonging to the healthcare, financial, and human resources sector, starting from their inception to the successful completion utilizing appropriate methodologies, including the Agile techniques.
Best Practices For Software Development Process to Work Better
In reality, no such thing as the ideal software development project ever exists! Every project has its own features, characteristics, flaws, codebases, test cases, bugs, and many other components. However, some techniques are there that can help to make a project more consistent and coherent.
Here are some of the tried and tested best practices that make software development projects work better:
- Strive to Keep the Code Simple
Code simplicity is an idea that helps to reduce unnecessary complexity in software development. This code simplicity movement goes best with software principles like DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), a valuable mantra in agile development. A simple and readable code can be easily patched, extended, and changed.
- Test Continuously from End to End
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a prescriptive process that helps to boost the confidence of the coder regarding code quality. Behavior Driven Development (BDD) allows the coder to learn the features and requirements directly from the customers and create codes that are much closer to the users’ needs. Full integration testing makes sure that all components of the code are functioning together as per expectation and increases code coverage.
- Keep a Consistent Style Guide across the Team
It is essential to maintain a consistent style guide for codebase while working with a team. If by seeing the codebase, it is possible to tell who wrote a particular file, then there exists no consistency between the authors. However, several tools are available in the market to enforce consistent style.
- Get the Code Reviewed By Someone Else
An attitude that allows an individual to acknowledge imperfections helps in improving a process and makes it trustworthy. It is always better to have someone else review a pull request before merging, as it ensures better code quality. Code reviews can help in reducing bugs in the final product and helps to identify any performance issues.
- Set Realistic Time & Budget Estimates
A realistic budget helps to keep a software project from being too much under pressure. Though agile methods offer the scope of easy flexing as the project progresses, an unrealistic estimate can eventually lead to various problems in terms of quality, morale, as well as output. However, an estimation can be tricky when so many unknowns are involved. Better estimates come with experience, and also, many tools are available in the market that facilitates software development project estimates.
- Deliver the project on time
Monitor the project progress and identify the challenges and risks associated to achieve the goals like delivering the project on time and within the budget. Prepare a risk management plan to mitigate the risks throughout development process.
About Venkat Guntipally
Venkat Guntipally has a strong educational background that has helped him in acquiring extensive knowledge about systems and technology. He is a B. Tech in Electronics and Communications from Nagarjuna University and an M. Tech in Digital Systems & Computer Electronics from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. He has achieved specialization in web-based enterprise solutions and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with the help of SOA, Java/J2EE, .NET technologies. His core competencies include product development, team building and management, research and troubleshooting, systems integration, web architectures, SAAS, customer management, offshore team management, and more. He is certified in Project Management and also a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
