The success or failure of a project often rides on how good a company is at selecting a software partner. Software development has become almost a commodity in many areas. However, the team you choose or build is a critical factor in project success. No two providers are the same, and minor differences can have a substantial impact. There is far more than price, experience, or even portfolios that go into selecting the best team. Selecting A Software Partner Is …
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 …
