Software development is hard, and it isn’t always the programming language or the framework you use, it’s the people who work on it.

People are an essential part of a team; everything can be easily changed and fixed, but you need to make sure people work well together to achieve effective communication and a great culture. In my software development career of over 20 years, the critical difference between successful software projects and failed ones has been how engineering teams are created and how they are allowed to function over time.

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