Tools for Software Development: Challenges, Review, and Analysis

This report provides an overview of software development tools, focusing on the challenges faced in team-based software development. It introduces the complexity of modern software development and the necessity of team-based approaches, highlighting the evolution of software from a technical domain to a critical business component. The report identifies key challenges such as feature teams versus component teams, team autonomy, the importance of business value thinking, and code ownership issues within platform development. It reviews previous studies by Khan, Niazi, Ahmad, Donateo, Ficarella, Spedicato, Gorschek, Tempero, Angelis, and Lee, and Lee, offering personal analysis and discussions. The report then examines relevant software, specifically the Agile methodology, as a solution for team-based software development, emphasizing its distinctiveness from other approaches. The Agile methodology is reviewed in detail, encompassing its principles and practices for successful software development, from planning to deployment. The report also covers the importance of understanding the user, integrating technologies, and adapting to changing requirements to ensure better user and team experiences.

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Executive Summary
The report is prepared to demonstrate the software developing tools along with the background of the challenges
originating from it. It has also reviewed various previous studies along with its analysis and discussions. Lastly the Agile
software is reviewed an instance of the team based software tool.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:.......................................................................................................................................................................3
2. Introduction of the recent challenges of team-based software development:....................................................................3
2.1. Challenges of team-based software development:.....................................................................................................3
2.2. The background of the identified challenges:............................................................................................................4
3. Reviewing of the previous studies, analysis and discussions:...........................................................................................5
3.1. The prior studies:........................................................................................................................................................5
3.2. The personal analysis:................................................................................................................................................6
3.4. The discussions:.........................................................................................................................................................7
4. Reviewing the relevant software:.......................................................................................................................................7
5. Conclusion:........................................................................................................................................................................9
6. References:.......................................................................................................................................................................11

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1. Introduction:
The complexity of the current software development has been on rise. Thus the sophisticated systems are
needed to be developers by the developer’s team [1].
The following report is prepared exploring the various practices of the software development that are team-
based. It also identifies the tools that are needed to be utilized in the industry.
The report has introduced the software developing tools along with the background of the recognized
challenges. Then it has reviewed the previous studies along with its analysis and discussions. Lastly the Agile
methodology as the relevant software tool is reviewed here.
2. Introduction of the recent challenges of team-based software development:
2.1. Challenges of team-based software development:
The challenges are described hereafter.
Feature teams versus the component teams:
The feature teams has been generally assuming that the end-to-end liabilities in any system provided is done by
the orienting the work across features or stories. The component teams on the other hand have been focusing more over
the delivery of the sub-systems interacting with the sub-systems. This is done to be more useful. Because of the focus on
the delivery of the tangible value to the end-clients, the agile approaches have been favoring the feature teams over the
component teams [2]. However they have not necessarily been denying the necessity of possessing the component teams.
There has been a common statement that is frequently heard among the technical leads and the project managers. This
states that they have been told that having the component teams in the agile world has not been good, that have not been
responsible end-to-end [3]. Despite all this, in the context of the platform development there has been necessity for the
assimilation of the both. For instance various services, particularly the backend ones, have been so costly and
fundamental that they have needed the dedicated component group. This is against the maintaining by the feature team as
the portion of the current project.

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Team autonomy:
Another challenge that has been hindering the platform of the successful software development has been the
autonomy of high team [2]. As the members of the largely autonomous team have been staying with each other for a
longer time, there has been the risk that the team has been becoming a silo [4]. Through giving permissions to the silos to
be generated in any company have vital outcomes like the redundancy in code, false assumptions, platform divergence
and the insufficient visibility of the reusable assets [3]. After some time the branches has been diverging such that the
platform has been turning to be too specific to any particular operating system. This has been resulting in the loss of the
common underlying model.
The business value thinking:
In the various agile companies, there has been strong emphasis lying on the providing of the values of business.
It proved to be of high benefit of the development of the agile software. The immature and common understanding of the
constituents of the business values has been hurdle. This has not been generating from the thinking of the business value.
There has been a common statement heard [2]. This states that the values could be defined as the usable and the useful
functionality delivered to the clients.
The ownership thinking about the product and code:
The product and the team owners have been very proactive of the products and the assets. This has been making
the transition to the platform strategy much harder [2]. This has been primarily due to the reason that the teams have
owned particular components keeping the dealing with the component instead of retiring that. This has also included the
maintaining of the shared components in the platform [4]. Further, in the context of the platform, the code ownership has
not been as clear and explicit as in the software development of silo. Thus it has not been clear who has owned the
component in that platform which is shared around the various products and teams.
2.2. The background of the identified challenges:
The software development has been evolving beyond the technical intellectuals who have been typing havoc in
the dark abyss of the bright screen adding features to the static systems and getting immersed in the foreign languages
and complex codes. This has turned to be critical component of the business infrastructure [6]. These have required
getting evolved, adapted and improved.

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In the current world of business, the software has been the heart of every organization. This has been helping in
ability of creating the services, systems and products. The demand for the tech-savvy solutions of the agile software has
been turning to the primary differentiating factors in the competitive landscape [5]. The development of the software has
been complicated. Thus it has not been a surprise that every project is bound to be consisting of challenges.
The adoption of the strategy of the software platform has been a radical change. It has needed the companies to
adjust and revise the current practices [6]. In the context of the agile situations particular agile practices and principles
have been creating challenges as they have been utilized without any kind of reconsideration.
3. Reviewing of the previous studies, analysis and discussions:
3.1. The prior studies:
According to Khan, Niazi and Ahmad (2012) the current technology has been one of the most critical headaches
for the business. The technology indicates the software that has been driving the business results. The current technology
trends and the macro business have been needing systems and software for better lifecycle management. The software
innovation has been equivalent to business innovation. The accelerating software delivery has been the key towards the
success of the business. Donateo, Ficarella and Spedicato (2016) stated that the people should be balancing with the
necessities and the abilities of the stakeholders and the practitioners. The team must be provided with the management
with the developed mechanisms of steering. This includes the economic governance and the measurement control. They
must also enable the practitioners with the more freeness for innovating. This must be done through the process
enactment, automation, change freedom, reduced scrap and rework and complexity management.
As researched by Gorschek, Tempero and Angelis (2014) the business should be relying in the honest
collaboration around the lifecycle. This has been allowing smarter development of analytics, better steering and
resolving the uncertainties much early. The popular enterprises have been optimizing the development of the critical
software operations by the automated instruments, drillable dashboards and metrics. They went from the typical two-
week building of cycle to the building of cycles on the daily basis. It got enabled by the real time automation of the
reporting and measurement that has been permitting the data collection as mentioned by Gorschek, Tempero and Angelis
(2014). This is done directly from the test base and the engineering code. Thus the practitioners have been spending less
time in the reporting of the status and much more time on the test and code.

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Also, Lee and Lee (2017) stated that the business should create the continuous developing systems, applications
and products. This has been meaning that the developments in the optimization, collaboration and integration should
span the boundary of the supply chain of the software. The lifecycle of the software and the systems have been
expanding showed Niazi et al. (2015). This lifecycle has been currently expanding further back into the design and
forward towards the operations. The business has needed to bridge the gaps in this lifecycle with the solutions in the
agile scale, social business and analytics.
As per as mentioned by Gorschek, Tempero and Angelis (2014), the business requires more engineering with
less overhead. The accelerated delivery has been needing developments in the internal cycles through the integration and
the automation of the change management, data and tools. There has been consistent delivery capabilities that has been
including the development that has been test driven, engineering based on models and consistent deployment,
measurement and transparency. As per as Donateo, Ficarella and Spedicato (2016) all of these are currently available at
various lifecycle platforms of many companies. They have been showing how their present platform integration,
collaboration of team and optimized process could develop the productivity of the product quality of the team leading to
better outcomes of business.
3.2. The personal analysis:
The first thing that has been known is that the user must be understood properly. The business should determine
how they could use and navigate the application. They must determine what components are critical for accomplishing
that is needed by them [8]. The users have been unaware about what they have been wanting till they receive that. Along
with the high user involvement around the design and the process and development, it has been in-evitable for users to
possess the entire understanding of what they needed and wanted. This takes place after they use the application in the
real time. The integration of various technologies and systems could be getting sticky [7]. There have been various
technologies, applications and systems that are available for business. The seeking and hiring the proper skills needed for
each projects unique demands. Same as the integration of the varied components, the current infrastructure have been
complex. The hiring and finding of the resources understanding them has been also a problem. There has been the trying
of the duplicity to the test environment.
This has been very hard to examine the software in any controlled scenario. This is because the user has not
been immersed in the complete realistic situation of working. This has been impractical to gauge the way in which the
user could realize the usage of the application in various cases regularly till it gets deployed [8]. Lastly there has been the

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necessity to change the requirements. It has been very general for the businesses to build consistently the latest concepts
across the design process. This has been also referred to as the scope creep. As all the new features and the concepts are
incorporated at first, it poses the major risk towards the foundation quality that the businesses have been striving to
create [9]. After the initial deployment, some time should be taken for gathering the feedback of the user. Then they must
begin preparing and thinking about the following phase of that project.
3.4. The discussions:
From the planning to the all the way of deployment, the proper understanding of the problems of software
development has been creating better experiences. This has been both for the users and the team. The business should
assure that they have the partner understanding the entire opportunities of the project. They must also recognize the
central functional requirements of their project. They should also map out the requirements of the users and the
workflow [7]. Moreover they must recognize the complex components and should be able to keep every complicated
code at the backend behind the killing user interface.
4. Reviewing the relevant software:
The relevant agile development approach has been the process to develop the team based software. Despite that
the Agile methodology has been much more distinct from the other approaches. The term agile has been indicating to the
capability of moving easily and quickly. They have reacting to the changes very quickly [12]. This has been the primary
aspect of the development of Agile software.
In the conventional development of software such as the Waterfall model, the project could be taking about
many months and years for finishing. The customer could not be able to view the end product till the project gets
completed. At the high level non-Agile projects the extensive products are to be allocated of time to gather, design,
development, test and the user acceptance testing of the requirements. This is to be done before deploying the project
finally [13]. On the other hand, in contrast to this idea, the Agile projects have possessed the iterations and sprints that
have been shorter in the duration. This has been during which the pre-determined features have been delivered or
developed. Lastly the agile projects could have one or more iterations and provide the entire product at the ending of the
final iteration.
With the methodology of the Agile development, every project has been broken up into various iterations [12].
All the iterations have been of the similar time duration. At the ending of all the iterations the working product has been

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delivered. The Agile methodology, in simple terms, has been breaking the projects into about ten releases. Instead of
spending bout a couple of months on the gathering of requirements, the development of Agile software has been helping
the team to decide the fundamental core features [14]. These have been needed in the product and to be decided which of
them could be developed at the first iteration. The remaining features could not be delivered at the first time. They are
taken up in the following iteration on the basis of the priority. At the ending of the initial iteration the team delivers the
working software. This has been consisting of the features finalized for that iteration. There have been ten iterations ant
at the ending of all the iterations the client is provided with the working software [13]. This has been incrementally
updated and enhanced with the components that have been shortlisted for the iteration [15]. This approach has been
allowing the clients to communicate and work with the functioning software. This has been at the end of all the iteration
and delivering feedback over it. The approach has been allowing the team to carry the changes more effectively and
create the course connections as required [24]. In this approach of Agile, the software has been developed and then
released incrementally in iterations.
The Agile methodology has been providing for importance to the collaboration under the team and the
customer. They have been reacting to the delivering and the change of the working software [16]. The Agile
development turned out to be the common place in the sector if IT. In a current survey, it has been revealed that the
respondents claimed that the company has been practicing the Agile development as in one form or the other [17].
Regardless the responsibilities in the company, it has turned out to be vital to make sense how the development of Agile
has been working. It has been also noted how they have been differing from the other formats of the software
development.
In the conventional methodology, every job function has been doing their job and handing over to the following
job function. The prior job function needed to be signed off before that has been handed over to the next job function.
This has been authenticating that the job has been complete and full in every aspects. For instance, the necessities of
collecting has been finished and handed over to the design phase [19]. This has been handed over subsequently to the
development and then later to the testing and the rework. Every job function has been a phase in their individual area.
In the way of working of the Agile, every feature has been finished according to the rework, testing, code,
development and design before the components are done. There have been no different phases and every work has been
done under one phase only [20].

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There have been advantages of the Agile methodology of software development. Here the delivering of the
software has been unremitting [23]. The clients have been satisfied due to the fact that after every Sprint feature of
working of the software has been delivered to them. The clients are needed to see the working feature that has fulfilled
their demands. As the customer possess any feedback or any alteration ion the components, then that could be
accommodated in the present product release [21]. Under this method, the regular interactions have been needed between
the developers and the business people. Here the attention has been paid to the better designing of the product. The
alterations or modifications in the requirements have been accepted even in the future stages of development.
However there have been lying various disadvantages for this team based software. Under the Agile method, the
documentation has been lesser. At many cases, under the Agile methodology the requirements have not been clear [22].
Thus it has been hard to predict the results as expected. In some or the projects at the beginning of the life cycle of the
software development it has been hard to estimate the real effort needed. The projects that have been following the
methodology of Agile could have been facing few unknown risks that could impact the project [24].
5. Conclusion:
The report has identified various challenges in the current team based software. It has analyzed the
comprehensive background and the literature review. The challenges are assessed and the solutions are discussed. These
have been including the problems in feature teams versus the component teams, the team autonomy, the business value
thinking, the ownership thinking about the product and code. In the current world of business, the software has been
laying the heart of every organization. The software development has been evolving and the adoption of the strategy of
the software platform has been a radical change. It has needed the companies to adjust and revise the current practices
This has been helping in ability of creating the services, systems and products. From the planning to the all the way of
deployment, the proper understanding of the problems of software development has been creating better experiences.
Here the Agile software has been taken as the instance. This is reviewed and its popularity and working methods in the
industry has been described. It is understood that the Agile methodology has been much more distinct from the other
approaches. The term Agile has been indicating to the capability of moving easily and quickly that goes exact with the
activities of the software. With the methodology of the Agile development, every project has been broken up into various
iterations. The report has also shown that the Agile methodology has been providing for importance to the collaboration
under the team and the customer.

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