Mar 25
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In the modern software development life cycle (SDLC), traditional software maintenance in software engineering often fails to deliver the reliability and cost-efficiency that organisations need. Software engineering is about more than just building new features; it’s about long-term ownership. In this video, Steve Smith (standing in for Dave Farley) explores why standard "maintenance mode" solutions often turn into a "dumping ground" for operations teams or a hidden burden for developers. Whether you are a software engineer, software developer, or technical leader, understanding how to manage low-demand services without sacrificing team morale or future delivery is critical. In this video, we cover: - What is "Maintenance Mode"? Defining the point in the software development life cycle where maintenance tasks like vulnerability updates and platform upgrades overtake new value-adding work. - The Operations Handover Trap: Why transitioning live services to a separate ops team often weakens reliability and makes future feature delivery nearly impossible. - The Problem with "Backgrounding": Why asking delivery teams to maintain old services while building new ones fails to reduce costs and leads to developer burnout. - Sobering Industry Data: Insights from a survey of 40 enterprise organisations revealing the high failure rates and negative impacts on job satisfaction in traditional models. - A Reveal for a Better Way: A look toward a more radical solution that actually delivers on all key outcomes: capacity, cost, reliability, and satisfaction. Learn how to rethink your software lifecycle and SDLC in software engineering to avoid the common pitfalls of legacy support. - Steve on X ➡️ https://x.com/SteveSmith_Tech Steve on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevesmithtech/ Steve on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/stevesmithtech.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering on X ➡️ https://x.com/ModernSoftwareX Modern Software Engineering on LinkedIn ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-software-engineering Modern Software Engineering on bluesky ➡️ https://bsky.app/profile/modernswe.bsky.social - ⭐ PATREON: Join the Continuous Delivery community and access extra perks & content! ➡️ https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon 🎥 Join Us On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@modern.s.engineering - 👕 T-SHIRTS: A fan of the T-shirts I wear in my videos? Grab your own, at reduced prices EXCLUSIVE TO CONTINUOUS DELIVERY FOLLOWERS! Get money off the already reasonably priced t-shirts! 🔗 Check out their collection HERE: ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Uby9iA 🚨 DON'T FORGET TO USE THIS DISCOUNT CODE: ContinuousDelivery - CHANNEL SPONSORS: Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery (CD), empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Globally, more than 4,000 organizations rely on its Continuous Delivery, GitOps, and release orchestration solutions to deliver swift value to their customers. Octopus efficiently orchestrates software delivery across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, data centers, and hybrid environments, whether containerized modern apps or heritage applications. With governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at its core, Octopus supports Platform Engineering teams in their mission to provide a superior developer experience (DevEx). Octopus also actively contributes to the developer community with open-source projects. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MSExOCTDEP Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 TransFICC provides low-latency connectivity, automated trading workflows and e-trading systems for Fixed Income and Derivatives. TransFICC resolves the issue of market fragmentation by providing banks and asset managers with a unified low-latency, robust and scalable API, which provides connectivity to multiple trading venues while supporting numerous complex workflows across asset classes such as Rates and Credit Bonds, Repos, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Interest Rate Swaps ➡️ https://transficc.com - #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #code #coding #programming