The document provides tips for building a successful software project. It recommends having a real objective, managing the project rather than just doing the work, using an engineering approach of analyzing, designing, developing and testing, being realistic and practical, using an agile approach, sufficiently sharpening skills upfront, finding the simplest solution, being customer-oriented, using modularized and iterative development, having sufficient upfront architecture and design, building the minimum required and then optimizing, prioritizing features that add the most value, avoiding fancy UIs, not getting trapped in frameworks, understanding risks of new technologies, focusing on what is useful, following coding conventions, avoiding hacks without understanding, doing early demos for feedback, and gradually rolling

1. How to build a successful
software
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by
Nalaka Gamage
(auoracs.lk)

2. Target audience
• Those who learn programming
• Those who like to explore new ideas
and make them reality
• Those doing a software project as
part of higher studies
• Freelance developers
• Any one interested in software
development and/or business
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3. Have a real objective
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4. Manage things rather
than just doing
(Plan->Organize->Lead)
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5. Engineering approach
(Analyze->Design->Develop->Test)
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6. Be realistic/practical
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7. Use agile approach
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8. Sufficiently sharpen your
skills upfront
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9. Simplest possible solution
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10. Customer/user oriented
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11. Modularized development
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12. Iterative development
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13. Sufficient up front
architecture & design
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14. Build minimum required
& then optimize
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15. Build that add value
most first
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16. No fancy UI
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17. Do not get trapped with
too much of frameworks
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18. Know the benefits as well
as risks of cutting edge
technologies
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19. Do not do just what you
like, but what is useful
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20. Follow coding conventions
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21. No hacks without really
understanding what you do
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22. Do early demoes to users
and get early feed back
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23. Gradually rollout the
product/solution
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24. Remember that, its not
the amount of effort,
but the value that
matters at the end
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25. Thank You !
Presented by
Aurora Computer Studies
(auoracs.lk)
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26. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
~ Aristotle.
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27. You may also interested in;
• Introduction to critical thinking
ohttps://www.slideshare.net/auroracslk/int
roduction-to-critical-thinking-72869179
• Attributes of a great programmer
ohttps://www.slideshare.net/auroracslk/att
ributes-of-great-programmer
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