FAQ: The realities of building software
Summary
In an effort to explain why these horror stories are so common—and more importantly, help you avoid them—we have compiled a series of FAQs about the realities of software application development. The good news is that you can come to market with a solid subset of your overall vision, and then incrementally leverage the cloud and mobile to automatically push updates out to users. Guessing and assuming guarantees that you will miss the essentials that matter most to your customers, and they will be unimpressed when you take your product to market. If you want your application to do more than “just work,” you need people devoted to design, testing, prototyping, iterations, and quality assurance. The short answer is, if you’re the kind of person who reads a FAQ list like this one, you will likely want to use Agile, because it is the most flexible process and it supports creativity.