Just Solutions LLC provides Software and Systems engineering services to the Department of Defense in the Baltimore-Washington area.
No matter what field of business you are in intelligent software engineering is essential to the success of any sizable software development project. Poor software engineering is also the number one reason software projects fail. This is why we consider software engineering our most important service.
Whether software developers know it or not they make design decisions either up front or while programming. Writing code is a time intensive task. Making major changes at the coding stage, although sometime necessary, is expensive. By doing the majority of the design work ahead of time many more options can be evaluated quickly resulting in better software construction.
The inexperienced tend to think that designing is a waste of time because it means they are not writing code.
A change in design during the coding process may invalidate thousands of lines of code. At this stage programmers and managers often opt for a lower quality design rather than throw away hours of work. Sometimes throwing away code or refactoring is a necessary evil of software development. However, it can often be avoided through good design practices