How Agile Can Connect Your Business Strategy With Your Software Development Realities

There’s more to it than just putting developers behind screens

Photo by Goh Rhy Yan on Unsplash Co-authored with David Wesley.

There is often a divide between the realities of software development and how businesses treat the products produced. Many non-developers often view the investment as a concrete product — like a building that doesn’t need maintenance or monitoring.

But unlike physical real estate, the permanence or longevity of digital real estate depends on a myriad of internal decisions and external factors. These factors also determine the speed of decay. While this decay happens at a much slower rate for physical structures, digital decay can occur anywhere between 6 to 12 months.

Most of the time, when you build a digital product or service, it will need to be updated for security and systems stability. Things can get complicated when you have a monolithic piece of software that is hard to update, upgrade or grow.

So how do you deal with such an issue?

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