The 5 Mistakes that your Startup is making
In the modern world, information technologies (IT) are increasingly applied to all areas of our lives, consumers want smarter devices that help them carry out their work or carry out their day to day, and you as a good entrepreneur he wants to enrich himself by taking a share of this growing market. But, I'm sorry to report that your start-up will be eaten up by the competition if you make the following mistakes.
1 Not forming a true work team
Hiring a handful of IT professionals and putting them to work together under someone else is not a team. A team requires that different professionals with delimited responsibilities and specific competencies can work harmoniously to meet the requirements of the project, and like a symphony orchestra, a team of developers cannot govern itself, it needs a leader, a true project leader. . The leader should be the most experienced IT professional on the team, capable of translating their clients' needs into development goals, and assigning the appropriate workload to each team member based on her skills and experience.
2 Do not use available tools
I see with concern how many companies that have a mentality of “reinventing the wheel”, waste hours and hours of their developers' work to create something that is already freely available on the internet, open source and with a license compatible with the development of closed source projects. Your team can hardly achieve in a reasonable amount of time, create a Framework or library with the stability and quality of the most robust tools available.
3 Believe in the existence of off-road developers
The world of computing is huge, the number of programming languages, libraries, Frameworks, design patterns, good and bad development practices, command line tools, is extensive. It is too much information to contain it in a single human mind, pretending that a single person masters Front-End / Back-End Web development, Android, iOS, .NET, Cpp and also be efficient, is not only impractical, but stupid. Maybe you see Cristiano Ronaldo hitting home runs in the world series, right? Instead look for developers who are experts in a specific area, this degree of knowledge and experience, in only one area, if it is achievable for one person after many. years of experience and study. Consider that an expert works faster and produces better quality products than a developer who has months of experience in many different things.
4 Not having a plan
When a contractor begins the construction of an apartment building, you think that she can simply order her workers to glue blocks and erect columns at random or at the discretion of the individual, right? The result would be a disaster. To build any building you need a lot of prior engineering, safety and environmental considerations, plans, models, electrical diagrams, simulations, and a long etcetera. The world of computing is no different, you need your team to think carefully about how your Software should be developed to meet the needs of your customers before writing the first line of code, and also to use the tools available for this purpose, such as the unified UML modeling language, Mockups, among many others.
5 Use trendy languages, libraries and frameworks
Using a tool just because everyone else is talking about how great it is, is a big mistake, your team must work with the most appropriate tools to meet the demands of your clients, and as each project has different objectives, it is possible that the tools to use must also be different. Another criterion to take into account is the knowledge of the contracted personnel. It is foolish to force a team with years of experience working in Java to develop a Back-End in Python, just because of the popularity and apparent convenience of the language.
Conclusions
If you follow these simple tips I can assure you that your company will be above the competition, Since most of your competitors prefer fast and cheap development, efficient and quality, a mistake that will end up displeasing many of your customers when they receive software of very poor quality, full of bugs, slow and does not even meet the objectives set. Don't be one of the statistics, stand out as a serious company that wants to earn a reputation.