They don't plan for change.

There is an interesting 2^nd post on Bokardo about reasons why web based applications fail. One of them is a central problem in software engineering today. They don’t plan for change.

”One of the most common battle calls of web developers these days is that you have to plan for change. One certainty is that the app you’re working on right now isn’t the one that will be there a year from now, a month from now, or even a week from now. The software cycle is speeding up. And interestingly, it isn’t just the new, small web apps that lead this charge. It’s Amazon, Google, and eBay, who have such sophisticated backends that they’re able to manipulate, test, and retest different features
on the fly to a subset of users. They didn’t get to where they are today by coming up with a fantastic initial design that “just worked”. No, they’re tweaking, tweaking, tweaking while you and I sleep.”

Brains4All is not only planning for change, we are actively embracing it. There are three things certain in life: Death, Taxes and Change.

But change is difficult, and there will always be resistance and inertia. The best way to cope with change is to make change itself the routine. Change all the time, by default.

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