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Building Software

Do You Have Resources To Support The Solution

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Our question checklist focuses on getting our problem solved and crafting that solution. However, we also need to support the solution. We want to avoid many pitfalls; the most difficult one to recover from is a lack of foresight. This challenge comes from keeping our focus on the initial solution without considering its downstream and long-term impact.  Impact Of The Solution When we answer the other questions in our checklist, we examine how we might need to create or change …

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Know Your Customers – Who Will Use The Solution

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One of the most common oversights in a failed product is a failure to know your customers. That may seem an obvious requirement. However, they tend to be misunderstood. We often build a solution without spending time understanding how the users will see it and their needs. It is not the same as building a solution that looks for a problem. This misstep is far more subtle. We have our customers in mind, as we should. Our failure is a …

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How Soon Do You Need It? – Quick Solutions

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Monetary cost is a crucial ingredient to any project plan. However, time is also essential. Quick solutions almost always cost more and have lower quality due to constraints on building them. The three-legged stool is time-money-resources, and that last one pulls less weight. There is often a limit to the impact resources can make. You can not get nine women to make a baby in one month. While this holds for all three of those constraints, time may be the …