Questions to ask a new software provider

Get to know the capability and culture of a provider before you invest in their software In a previous article, I reviewed “Why everyone should care about bad software development”. The purpose of that article was to help us confront the seemingly helpless situations many organisations face when being stuck with expensive and awful software. […]

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Why everyone should care about bad software development

Software is eating the world! You use software all the time. You’re using software to read this article online right now. Bad software development practices impact you, whether you realise it or not. As a private individual, or a business owner, no one is immune. With my background in software development, I often find myself […]

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You call that Agile?
Why do startups fail? What is agility and agile?

Agile doesn’t mean you take an 18 month project and break it down into month releases Why do startups fail? 🤔 Too many startups begin with the idea for a product that they think people want… and they actually don’t. When we talk about “Agile”, the Agile Manifesto, and some of the principles around Agile, […]

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An office environment about as chill as a Kafka novel

Would you like to work in this office environment? Looks somewhat anxiety-inducing, no? Perhaps it has a different feel at eye level. Worse or better? Hard to tell! It’s one of Facebook’s offices, apparently. Don’t know from when. I haven’t dug much deeper than the thread of replies on a tweet or two (so don’t […]

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