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Building Software

Documentation and Reproducible Builds – Critical Pieces Software Solutions

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One of the things I see most often plague an organization is the lack of documentation and reproducible builds. That has not been historically an issue. However, when the downsizing and rightsizing of the turn of the century kicked in, many developers moved on or were let go. While those were not bad business decisions, they did allow some critical knowledge to walk out the door. I have come across several organizations post the COVID lockdown that took too many …

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Clickable Demos And Wireframes

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Creating software requires using tools like clickable demos and wireframes to bring a vision to life. Likewise, these tools provide a canvas upon which to refine that vision. There are many ways to make the most of these tools. Thus, we will start with a definition and then move on to how to make them work for you as a developer or a customer. Clickable Demos and Wireframes Defined These two ways to build and demonstrate software are so common …

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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 …