Common Programmer Mistakes that Fail Projects
Learning from the mistakes of others.
The software project failure means that the developed product deviates significantly from the customer’s expectations. There can be different reasons software projects fail: unclear requirements, poorly established software development processes, an inefficient budget that may lead to lack of quality assurance, DevOpses, business analysts, etc.
Another common reason for software project failure is that the development team cannot handle the technical complexity that increases with each new feature. Projects with unlimited budgets, genius product owners, and business analysts still fail or come close to failing because the development team made these mistakes:
Ignoring Non-Functional Requirements
It is a known fact that developers should not start implementing the functionality until the functional requirements are clear. Moving to coding activities with partially defined requirements can force developers to even completely rewrite the code after discovering the missing requirements.
Lack of non-functional requirements before development and coding can lead to the same problem as missing functional requirements. The most common non-functional requirement is a performance…
