MAKING SOFTWARE EVOLVABLE
How do we keep our software up with the continuously evolving industry?
How can changes in the software and architecture be related to communication systems in a company?
How can we ensure that these changes do not have an adverse effect on the company?
Here is a quick guide that answers above questions.
⮚ What is evolvability and why is it important for businesses?
⮚ Conway’s Law and its relevancy towards evolvability.
⮚ Frameworks/Qualities for evolvability and its benefits.
⮚ Future of Evolution and Evolvability
What is evolvability and why is it important for businesses?
Evolvability is the ability of underlying technology systems and the architecture that supports the systems to be able to continuously deliver customer value irrespective to the business decision taken by companies.
Without evolvability, companies grow at a very slow rate
It enables the company/organization to grow through various different phases of its life cycle.
Let’s take an example, suppose there is a start-up involving 3 main shareholders, now suppose one of the three wants to move on to some other business.
Evolvability allows the person to merge the business with the current business model which in turn provides more customer value and satisfaction
Conway’s Law and its relevancy towards evolvability.
Conway’s Law states that organizations follow their internal communication protocols. In other words, the design systems and basic architecture of most crucial jobs in an organization mirror their own communication structure.
As the thought process of the company change due to the evolvability (Precedencies such as changing of CEOs, Rules, Focus, etc), the communication doesn’t catch up with the changes. This also affects the underlying software systems which don’t evolve as well due to their direct dependency on the communication structure of the organizations.
Frameworks/Qualities for evolvability and its benefits.
● Avoid Transient Ownership.
● Reserve a portion of the investment for Refactoring.
● Deliberately invest in refactoring and evolving systems.
● Have testable interfaces and modular systems.
Benefits of predictable behavior, resilience, scalability:
- Speed: Multiple coupled architecture increases the speed of the process.
- Engineering Morale: Develops engineering and employee morale.
- Fixing issues in Production.
- Improves customer happiness and satisfaction.
Future of Evolution.
The pace of change in today’s world is very high. When we talk about systems in general, with the evolution in technology and computing power each generation becomes faster, more efficient, and more optimized.
For the customer, on the other hand, one of the fundamental changes that can take place is the use of voice and sound.
Technologies such as text-to-speech and smart assistants will reduce the workload of physical jobs such as typing.
Another notable change is Consumer Commerce. It is a community of consumers with various services where everyone who is a part of that community is a consumer as well as the service provider.
It is imperative that Software Evolvability is critical for the businesses to be up to date and for being relevant in the industry.
We’d like to hear from you on the best practices w.r.t Software evolvability that you/your organization is following.
This blog has excerpts from #TGV135 i.e. The Guiding Voice episode 135 ft. Omkar Avasarala in conversation with Naveen Samala & Venkata Sudhakar Nagandla
Complied by Yash Chiddarwar.
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