Software Development Is Misunderstood
Software development is misunderstood because the focus is on the short term creation but quality is fastest way to get software into production.
Quality code makes maintenance easier and reduces code interaction times. Low quality code slowly creates more problems and slows down development.
Non-developers and inexperienced developers aren’t looking at the long term and don’t realise the importance of quality in software development.
This Why low-code development tools will not result in 80% of software being created by citizen developers by 2024 and Why Low-Code Development will not be the end of developers or code because the being a software developer is more than writing code.
There is a complexity about software development that people with a bit of knowledge don’t understand or even see. Many of the best practices and processes are not understood by inexperienced developers and non developers (management, customers, etc). This is the level of depth of expertise that non-experts do not know what they are doing and why they do it.
This is called Dunning-Kruger effect and explains why a little knowledge is dangerous because the little of knowledge makes you think you understand something
