Product development in terms of Computer Science is also a form of art. It is not just an art but an art that works two ways, one is the front-end, and another is the back-end. Both these ways should be served with enormous dedication and innovative thinking. When a developer works on a product from scratch, she/he may persist in some superior qualities for efficient and productive development. In this article, we will discuss these qualities that help a software developer to lead to successful product development.

Skills A Good Developer Shall Pursue

Persistence- Software development is an everlasting process because of the terms update and upgrade. Even after a product is developed, its development does not stop.

The developer has to be ready for these untimely changes because, in the process of software development, you are required to listen to the clients’ requirements and then also mold yourself according to your team leader’s thought process also. And it is not necessary that your client will not ask for changes after the requirement analysis process. She/he is always welcome to ask for changes whenever they want, in the world of application development.

You need to be persistent about the quality and accuracy of your work while being ever ready for any kind of ill-timed changes that your client may ask for.

Hence, improvisation is a key to precise software development. 

Knowledge- A software developer is supposed to have all of the required knowledge about the standard practices used in the process of application development and the latest trends being followed in the world of technology. For example, the use of A.I.(Artificial Intelligence) and M.L.(Machine Learning) has recently gained a good amount of popularity, and then you might get development projects that need you to have a sufficient amount of expertise in these sections. You can learn more about A.I. and M.L. in our last blog.

Next is the thorough knowledge of the product, its niche, and every other aspect that she/he is going to apply in the application for the product. This is the most crucial part because the client wants an application to impress her/his users, and the way you build the application for them, you have to ensure that it is customer-oriented.

The third one is a brief understanding of the requirement-gathering process. When your company is hired for some assignment, you assemble all related requirements about the product. You organize questionnaires, surveys, and other methods of performing an efficient analysis.

Innovation-The new is always something people keep an eye on. So do the website and application development follow. You are always expected to bring something new and engaging.

Suppose you are going to develop a website for your client, then you would be expected to have new ideas and something exciting for your client and his audience. You may take good references from other websites, but you should keep in mind that it does not look like you have clearly imitated someone else’s work.

That is why a software developer has to be thoughtful and embrace a flexible mindset that thinks of every approach to doing one particular thing.

Innovation also leads to new targets that may be hard to achieve but give the output which is more significant in uniqueness.

To keep up with generating new ideas, you need to remain updated with the latest trends and news.

Punctuality-Being every successful person or project, there is one common factor that may not be measured but implemented. It is punctuality.

In the process of software and website development, you have so many modules to manage since one product relates multiple sections and has diversity in parts.

For instance, let’s take an example of a school’ app development project. In this project, you may have numerous different modules, but we will discuss the primary ones only. The modules would be like this, one having characteristics of the students, one will be based on the teachers of the school, and one would constitute administration-related details.

All these modules are distinct but must have inter relativity on a significant level.

And each of these modules will take its specific time period for the development, and then embedding cohesion will require time too.

Hence, without proper scheduling of this application development and not keeping up with that schedule would result in failure to submit the project within the deadline.

Three C’s- A big project is always under a team, and a group consists of many members with different profiles. Then the workflow will have to be maintained between various departments having people with other designations.

To have the workflow run in a decent manner, you have to acknowledge the three C’s of the development process.



1) Communication- Communication among the team members is essential. You need to carry a good flow of information among the team to carry out the development process smoothly. Lack of communication may lead to several issues in product development-

• Misunderstanding- Lack of communication gives rise to misunderstanding among the team members. This misunderstanding creates many unbeneficial scenarios in product development.
• Wrong approaches- Due to miscommunication, one can take the wrong methods to perform things which may lead to complicated errors that might cause later development issues.

2) Coordination- A team should persist in synchronization that is unbreakable. If the team of developers has a sync, then it could be a case that the product development process takes less time than the estimated one.

3) Calmness- A developer has to pursue calmness as there may be so many frustrating situations that would take so much time to solve. The only possible solution is to remain calm and think steadily. Also, you need to inhibit this calmness when you work in a team where you will have to work with different people, and it is not necessary that you like what everyone says.

These were some points that a software developer might implement in his coding life to become a better version of himself and earn profit for himself and the firm he may be working with.