Custom software can be very expensive and scary, but investing in requirements can help you improve the likelihood of success. However, we often want to see things being built rather than simply think about them. That creates two things that fight against each other (get it done or think it through) in many projects. Thus, we must consider early work on requirements and design as an investment. We pay for it in patience, but it saves us in almost every …
The propensity of data scraping and system integration projects shows we are all figuring out the value of data in our solutions. However, there seems to be a disconnect between this common pursuit and the paths and challenges it offers. The ideas of data scraping and system integration are often seen as very different, but they are the same. We can scrape data from a site or application to integrate with it. Yes, that is typically a one-way integration, but …
The modern landscape makes solving business problems an exercise in finding the right provider most of the time. In my experience, software consultants and solutions providers come in three types. Some are heavily invested in existing technology and want to use that for every customer. Then, some want to jump on every new technology and use clients as guinea pigs. The third type focuses on the client and the best solution. Once that solution is defined, they decide how to …
