Exception Handling in Agile Software

Robust exception handling has often been ignored by software developers from years past, but with the advent of the Agile methodology, there's real pressure from project teams, release management boards, users, project managers, etc. in order to deliver software very quickly, and cut corners anywhere possible to improve time to market. Some of the areas most impacted by these enhanced pressures, are security and supportability (which includes error handling).

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Elaborating Security Requirements

In recent years, including due to the pandemic, there has been more attention brought upon IT security as a practice. Across the technology industry, the business has increased the IT security budget tremendously as a result, resulting in large security organizations being created, which actually even operate independently from the technology organization overall, in many ways. However, although the dollars and focus have shifted to increment the security posture to react to the growth of cyber threats as the digital footprint of most companies has expanded, it can be said that security it's still not being integrated very well into large software projects, particularly during the requirements gathering phase.

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Agile, DevOps, Not Perfect!

Agile practices have brought about a much faster pace to how cross functional teams collaborate to deliver value to their business partners in a project setting. The speed at which change happens today, has led to an overhaul in how development, operations, and functional resources participate in delivering software products to their business users, and it has been this need for speed what has brought about the Agile and DevOps revolution. While it has many benefits, the Agile methodology, and a complete DevOps toolchain, that enables developing and delivering changes at the pace that your business now requires also has several drawbacks, including from a project management point of view.

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