Only 36% of projects are completed on-time and on-budget, according to the Standish Group.
Failed application development projects waste time, effort, opportunities, customer and management trust, and money. Other development projects get put on hold if you try to pick up the pieces and fix them. By learning about common AppDev challenges, you can improve your success rate.
55% of IT professionals point to a lack of resources as one of the biggest reasons projects fail. When you don’t have the budget, methodologies, expertise, or people to achieve your development vision, you set yourself up for failure.
An optimistic timeline is a disaster waiting to happen. Unrealistic and poorly defined deadlines can cause a project to go out of control quickly.
Leaders may overlook best practices for a few reasons, such as thinking they are unnecessary, wanting to avoid project slowdowns, or choosing riskier practices.
Stakeholders make or break AppDev projects. If IT leaders fail to see their importance or manage them correctly, they can lead the project to failure.
Have a full understanding of the goals and scope of your project to set appropriate expectations. Use well-defined milestones and an experienced project manager to keep everything on track.
Pick the appropriate stakeholders for the project and help them feel like an essential part of the team. Link their motivations and business goals to the project’s outcome to get them engaged.
Keep stakeholders well-informed get their feedback on the project’s direction.
Don’t settle for good enough. Get the right technical and project management expertise on your team to take the project to a successful completion.
Don't let your project fail because a critical employee is unavailable. Identify the most important roles and have a backup plan.
Establish a change request process, so you maintain tight control over your project’s scope.
Allocate enough time for testing before your AppDev project goes live. Create test cases, look for security vulnerabilities, and ensure that everything is working as intended.
Our Application Development Sprint Teams provide you with critical support for planning and executing your AppDev projects. An initial assessment with our experts helps you identify issues and priorities to choose the right services for your requirements. By working with Datavail’s Sprint Teams as a Service, you can lower your AppDev projects' risk and bring them in on point, on time, and on budget.
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In order to stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, businesses need to build software that makes their employees more productive and meets their customers’ evolving needs. Despite this, many companies lack a concrete plan to turn this goal into reality, or possess a practical guide to successfully delivering modern application development.
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