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As we all know, compared with the past, the Internet industry and the software industry are very different. Nowadays, information construction is being carried out everywhere, and everyone knows the Internet thinking. Such an information age is a great opportunity for software developers and software development companies.

In the eyes of the layman, software development is a great opportunity and low cost, as long as you call a few programmers, you can create a software company. But is this really the case? I have developed in the second-tier cities where the domestic software industry has developed well, and have personally seen the decline of many software companies in the past few years. There are startups that have only lasted for a year. There are also outsourcing software companies that have been engaged in the industry for several years suddenly decline. As long as people in this circle know, this industry is not so easy to mix.

The troubles of software development companies:

1. How to improve the efficiency of development?

Every time a project-based software company receives a new project, it will arrange a group of personnel to carry out project development. The more efficient the development is, the more projects will be received and the customer's final payment will be received earlier, but the actual situation is that the requirements will often have all kinds of changes. in addition, some other unexpected conditions make the project delivery delayed again and again, not to mention the final payment, as long as the customer is not held responsible for breach of contract.

two。 How to reduce the development cost?

The biggest cost of software companies is the cost of manpower, and now the treatment of software engineers is quite high, especially in first-tier cities, a slightly experienced engineer is often paid a monthly salary of 10k +, and software companies must consider the problem of human cost. How to reduce the development cost? The main way is to reduce the difficulty of development, reduce repetitive work, and get the same people to do more things. It would be nice to hire someone with a monthly salary of 5k to develop software quickly and produce as much or more as 10k + engineers.

3. How to face the changing needs?

After all, there are only a few software projects that go well in the development process, and software projects have to face endless requirements changes. if these changes are not taken into account in the overall design of the project, the project will be delayed and the project will lose money or even fail due to the increase of development costs.

4. How to stand at the forefront of technology?

The development of software technology is changing with each passing day, and new technologies for software development emerge in endlessly. From the rise of Bhammer S technology to the application of APP and Wechat, these technical terms alone have dazzled people. If we are willing to devote a lot of energy to delving into these new technologies, we may be able to keep up with the pace of the times and keep the products technologically competitive. What about the soul of the product? After all, the realization of business is the soul of the product.

5. How to deal with the loss of developers?

Now in the software development industry, job-hopping is more common, or even frequent, ordinary engineers are good for job-hopping. Once the core members of the team run away, the project will be postponed, or the painstaking product will be aborted. If you want to solve the problem of staff wastage, you need to get rid of the over-reliance on developers.

See here, I believe that many people have a similar experience, technology cattle can ignore the complaints of scum programmers like me, but architecture is not a kind of work that every programmer can do, and the beauty of the interface can not be written by programmers.

Our company is a typical software development company, a few years ago, our company did not say that the wind is smooth, at least the annual profit is quite considerable. But it has obviously been weak in recent years. Is our company asking too much for the project? Is it our company's programmer technology that can't keep up? It is the competition in the software industry that has become fierce. there are too many people who want to split the cake in the software industry, so there are times when the cake is not big enough.

At this time, the company must find a way to improve its competitiveness. How to enhance competitiveness? The improvement of product quality can enhance the image and competitiveness of the company. The reduction of the price of products is also a part, the reduction of prices is bound to reduce profits, how to lower the price of their own products and enhance their competitiveness under the premise of controlling profits? As we all know, the main expenditure of software companies is the cost of manpower. Nowadays, the salary of an experienced programmer is at least 10K a month. It is impossible for most people to get 5K programmers to replace 10K programmers to accomplish the same task.

But a rapid development platform can do that. What is a rapid development platform?

Rapid development, as can be seen from the name, can make development faster. What is his principle? Since our company uses a powerful and soft agile development framework, I will use it as an example to illustrate.

Of course, this is only the official description of this set of soft agile development framework, does not represent my personal opinion, in my opinion, the principle of this set of agile development framework is like this. Architecture, art, and various business functions are integrated into the agile development framework. It is equivalent to a semi-finished product of software, plus a 3D printing of business functions. Equivalent to a built semifinished house, the main frame has been built, the template has been done, all kinds of decoration materials have been prepared, the business function is the decoration style you need, which can be generated directly through the frame. You only need to decorate the room according to your own business needs.

Because both the architecture and the art framework are integrated, programmers only need to write business functions. The development process reduces repetitive work and simplifies the development process. Therefore, it naturally achieves the goal of rapid development, in fact, it is not only simple and fast, but also has more benefits.

Let me list the advantages of rapid development:

First, improve development efficiency

The overall framework has been built, developers only need to implement business functions. And the rapid development platform has integrated a large number of business templates, a large number of common components, developers only need to set up according to the development wizard to quickly complete the development work. It saves at least 90% of the workload compared to traditional development.

Second, improve the quality of software

Standard coding, professional architecture, stable and efficient bottom layer. This is the innate advantage of software quality. If you develop based on the soft and rapid development platform, the quality of your software can be greatly improved.

Third, reduce costs

While improving the efficiency, it is also reducing the cost. Nowadays, the salary of software engineers is generally high, especially the annual salary of hundreds of thousands of architects, which makes the cost of software development very high. But under the condition of using the rapid development platform, junior programmers can develop functions even if they have a clear mind. Shorter development cycles and lower requirements for developers also lead to a significant reduction in development costs.

Fourth, improve customer satisfaction

The framework provides developers with a beautiful and concise UI, which is beautiful and generous, easy to operate, and the user experience is bound to be greatly improved. With high development efficiency and good software quality, natural customer satisfaction will be greatly improved. It will also greatly improve the order acceptance rate of the company and bring direct benefits to the company.

Fifth, provide a stable and efficient technical support team (I am not sure whether every rapid development platform has it)

Technical support is provided by framework developers during the maintenance period, both architecture and coding can be supported throughout the process, without fear of staff wastage and other resistance in the development process.

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