Price is what you pay,
the quality of software is what you get

Why the Cheap Option in Software Development Costs More?

Usually when creating software, people focus on price and how expensive creating software seems. What they forget is about value and quality. There are reasons that quality costs more, it lasts longer.

In software development the cheap option often turns out to be more expensive in the long run. Cheap developers are cheap for a reason. When I think about price and quality, this Warren Buffett quote comes to mind.

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” - Warren Buffett

Good developers might be more expensive in the short-term, but cheaper developers cost you more in the long run. Creating software is a person intensive process, all the programming languages, frameworks and technology are tools to be used by developers. If you have a cheaper developer, on average they create low-quality software.

In software development - “Price is what you pay, the quality of software is what you get”

To the untrained eye or non-technical people can feel software developers are expensive when they only focus on the cost but don’t consider the output and the difference in quality.

Conclusion

The world is full of low-quality software and failed projects thanks to people choosing the cheap option with software development.

Try to look at software as a long-term investment. It’s better to build something of quality that will last. Software projects have lots of non-developers involved. The cost of overrunning due to low-quality, slow developers, technical debt is considerable.

Observe, quality is the fastest way to create software, quality is the short-cut. Most software projects will run into problems. Good software development teams take this in their stride and resolve them.

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