Enterprise Software Development, Oct/2016

Changing. Functional programming growing. Legacy software is a problem.

If you write code, this is your golden age

Or is it? Developing software is more simple or more complex?

And we are talking open source...

Do not estimate software development projects

This paper (What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation) makes it clear: there is no reliable estimate methodology. Expert advice, experience are the best evaluators.

Slowly the idea of software as a craft, as an art, is growing. Not a production activity.

Development x Packaged software

Yet another current myth, in Forrester's view, is that custom application development is dead, having fallen out of favor and supplanted by packaged products, according to Ried's report. "Definitely wrong," he wrote. "Enterprises spend about the same on custom-developed business applications as on packaged business software." Packaged applications are accounting for 25.8 percent of software spending while spending on custom software stands at 25.6 percent, according to the report.

"Custom development can be better as long as the business logic isn't subject to legal or tax regulations, such as financial accounting software."

Agile turned mainstream

And object oriented also did. That is good. But are the methodologies really used as they should? It seems that... no.

5 pioneering paths for software development's new frontier

Beware of the complexity in the development environment. Question: how to keep it simple? And efficient.

The world runs on bad software

...But, a lot of people are doing amazing things and making insane amounts of money from bad software.

Will continuous delivery transform the production of software?

To monitor.  This looks like software development by continuous improvement plus strong interaction with users. Isn't what we see in the Web? (Google, Amazon, ...)