The way I see it there are three aspects of a software projects that are worth noting, (or at least that I will focus on in this blog post):

1. The technical aspect

2. The process aspect

3. The meta techincal aspect

The technical aspect are all the aspects that every developer (hopefully) knows, like the programming language, the framework, the application servers etc.

The process aspect is the stuff like scrum, kanban ,lean etc.

The meta technical stuff is what I’ll zoom in on now.

First of all I’m not sure this it the best term, and probably someone has coined a better one…

However the way I see it these three aspects has to be in place for a project to suceed. The first two are usually in place, the first handled by the developer and the second by the project manager or scrum master or someone in similar roles.

However I see the last aspect often being neglected.

The meta technical aspect is about the framework of doing the technical stuff. so I would say it is for instance:

-TDD (BDD)

- SOLID

- IOC

So I would describe it as all the technical stuff that many hardcore developers do not care that much about, but that makes the quality of the code higher, and makes the code more maintainable.

The problem is that many people going into software development care about technical stuff, and care about breaking that small technical problem. But they don’t find the meta technical stuff as interesting.