The quality of work of software developers counts. This is true for all the professionals in the field of software development as they work with sustainable pace each day. This is more appropriate to agile teams where they incorporate the concept of adaptability to client’s behaviors and preference. The whole industry of software development owes its progress much in the quality of its daily output and the atmosphere where it operates.
The quality of the workday will depend on several factors like hygiene factors, people factors, and factors related to tools and processes. These factors help in the overall atmosphere of the development team. It is said that with the proper working conditions, the pace at which the team works will have to meet agility and quality in addressing the diverse needs of the public for mobile applications. Example of people factors will include the skills and competencies of the team members, leadership style, personal values, self-esteem, attitude, and health. Hygiene factors would specifically mean the work infrastructure, company policies, corporate culture, and the work’s overall atmosphere. These entities would imply the existence of quality and integrative approach to behaviors on the software development.
There are inevitable daily frustrations in the working environment that every software developer will encounter. This will greatly affect the emotions of the team members and the quality of the product that they are working on. The people factors and hygiene factors have huge impact to “individuals and interactions” especially in terms of agile methods of custom software development. According to the Agile Manifesto, software developers value the “individuals and interactions” more than “processes and tools”. The emphasis of the former accounts for what agility can give to the phase of software development. Its value will be more recognized in determining the interaction between clients and the developers on the product’s main features and specifications.
Though developers also need “processes and tools” in terms of enabling and fostering collaboration among team members, the entity of “individuals and interactions” has more weight in the overall software development. The interaction among individuals will only make sense when individuals remain efficient or have more focus on efficiency. This efficiency can be effectively improved if developers utilize tools in automating and optimizing the manual task of software projects. Indeed, the concept of efficiency still relies on the effective use of resources in making the task more manageable and more technology-integrated.
The most effective step in optimization is to apply it to the time spent by team members in obtaining information through the use of tools or the interactions among themselves. Effective database development will help them settle this matter in obtaining useful information for the software project that they are working with. The order or the flow of information retrieval of the members will take its part in the overall output of developing a software. This is also when the quality of the workday will be ensured with all other factors including people and hygiene factors.
