What is the most challenging aspect of software development in your opinion?

Software Development

Code complexity24%

Meeting deadlines20%

Managing dependencies37%

Debugging and testing9%

Other (please specify)9%

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IT Manager in Consumer Goods7 months ago

Changing priorities and abandoning tasks in progress. While this is, of course, understandable from the business perspective - it’s their role to seek the best solutions - it can be challenging for the development team, even with an understanding of the context.

Engineering Manager in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

Meeting arbitrary deadlines. Our organization makes it very difficult to move or adjust release dates.

Engineering Manager2 years ago

The most challenging aspect is delivering the agreed scope of work. This happens most of the time due to pool stakeholder and communication management.

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