Overview
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The Old Way to Develop Software
For the past forty years, developers have worked alone. They interact occasionally through meetings and e-mail, and purposely work on separate parts of the code base, to avoid interfering with the work of other developers. The fallout from this style of development is well-known:
- Knowledge of the system becomes fragmented among many developers, which creates bottlenecks, makes it difficult to move developers to where they are needed most, and destabilizes the company when employees leave.
- Low-skilled developers make poorly-conceived changes to the code, and by the time their changes are visible to other developers, it's often too late to do anything.
- Many defects are introduced into the code, which would have been caught by another pair of eyes.
- Low-skilled developers do not learn from high-skilled developers, wasting the company's most valuable assets.
- New hires aren't productive for weeks to months after hiring.
- Adding developers to a project is increasingly costly. Adding a developer to a team of N developers imposes an additional communication overhead proportional to 2 N.
- Developers take the code base in conflicting directions because they don't know what other developers are doing to the code base at the same time.
Now, with the advent of ubiquitous high-speed Internet and breakthroughs in real-time collaboration, there's a better way to develop software — one that is set to revolutionize the field of software development.
The Next-Generation Way to Develop Software
UNA is a real-time collaborative development environment that enables multiple developers to work on the same piece of code — simultaneously and in real-time. Interacting through a chat interface, a virtual whiteboard, and collaborative notes, multiple developers work as a team to design and write software, achieving what none of them could achieve individually.
- Quality code
- Fewer defects
- Knowledge-transfer
- Elimination of bottlenecks
- Greater productivity
- Team pressure
Developers collaborate to create innovative, elegant, robust solutions to the toughest problems.
The code is smaller and better-designed, and as a result, it is easier to understand and to change, reducing the costs of development and maintenance.
Developers collaborate to catch each other's mistakes as they are made, when they are cheapest to fix — long before the code reaches QA or customers.
Developers constantly learn skills, languages, and elements of good design from each other, as they watch each other code in real-time.
The quality of the code rises to the level of the highest-skilled developer, instead of sinking to the level of the lowest, and new hires are productive from day one.
Developers can rotate through different teams, giving each one proficiency in all areas of the code.
This practice eliminates bottlenecks and knowledge-monopolies, and allows development resources to dynamically move to wherever they are needed most.
UNA creates an enjoyable working environment for developers, which emphasizes team work and trust, minimizes distractions such as e-mail and the Internet, and makes everyone more productive.
Developers make the right choices more often, refusing to let their team members down.
The Tool that is a Team Player
UNA is designed to power all the collaborative development in your organization. When it's time to collaborate, developers can turn to UNA. When it's time to work alone, they can seamlessly use their existing development tools. This is possible thanks to UNA's strong support for version control systems, which makes switching from one tool to another as easy as checking code in and out.
We welcome you to further explore the UNA product and collaborative way of thinking through this web site.
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