Nithya B. answered • 04/29/19
12+ years Teaching Experience to Engineering Students
When talking about software development challenges,i would like to differentiate the challenges into technical and operational challenges.
Technical challenges are what you normally associate with the core coding aspect of software development. It's learning the languages, the frameworks, the systems and the algorithms. It's dealing with writing quality, maintainable code that can scale to multiple systems that can serve millions of users. It's finding and fixing logical errors, debugging some esoteric minute bug in the code.
Operational challenges are less unique to software development and thus less mentioned but equally if not more difficult to handle. Dealing with management, career advancement and recognition, collaboration with other engineers as well as designers and product managers, and continuous education of both technical and business parts of an organization are all issues that software developers face. As a matter of fact, the emphasis on the pure technical challenges above downplay these operational challenges.
