{"id":50692,"date":"2023-03-24T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T19:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/?p=50692"},"modified":"2023-07-14T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T21:00:07","slug":"report-the-major-challenges-for-development-teams-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdtimes.com\/software-development\/report-the-major-challenges-for-development-teams-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: The major challenges for development teams in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finding developers with the right set of skills for the job will continue to be a major challenge for businesses in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Department of Labor is estimating that there will be a shortage of 85.2 million developers by 2030, and over a third of respondents to Reveal\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revealbi.io\/whitepapers\/reveal-survey-report-top-software-development-challenges-for-2023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">latest survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on development struggles said that they are continuing to struggle with finding developers that have the necessary skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Reveal, companies are attempting to overcome the skills challenge by adopting new technologies that will lower demand on developers, such as low-code tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using low-code tools has solved the challenges associated with the developers skills shortage in 76% of organizations, according to the report.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis approach is helping alleviate the demand for developers by reducing the need for heavy hand-coding in areas like screen design, UX flows, theming, and branding and can all but eliminate the need for manual HTML &amp; CSS tweaking,\u201d the report states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The survey found that the hardest roles to fill are DevOps engineer, data analytics developer, and IT security engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second biggest challenge, cited by another third of respondents, is keeping existing employees safe, and the third biggest challenge is limited resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development teams plan to improve resource utilization by improving project management (30%), improving designer\/developer collaboration (30%), using software that will work for citizen developers (27%), utilizing remote staff (25%), and incorporating a data or analytics catalog (25%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOver the past three years, workers have been faced with a series of unexpected challenges \u2014 the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic downturn, and a volatile work environment\u2013 which is pushing employers to do more to assure workers are protected. 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