Insights and strategies for successful software development, including tips and key practices to optimize the development process.
The workflow that scaled you to $50M is quietly capping you at $100M. Here's how growing companies spot the bottlenecks hiding inside yesterday's processes before they show up in next quarter's margins.
If your team rebuilds the same Excel report every Monday morning, you don't have a reporting problem - you have a visibility tax. Here's when stitching data across systems pays back faster than another dashboard tool.
Halfway through the budget, half the functionality done, and the CFO is yelling. Sunk-cost reflexes will keep you spending - five questions that cut through the emotion and tell you whether to push, pivot, or pull the plug.
Your business software is an asset on your balance sheet, even if your accountant doesn't list it that way. Seven concrete moves to protect that asset from the all-too-common single-developer, undocumented, prayer-based support model.
Your business has habits the same way you do - and most of them quietly compound, for better or worse, every quarter. A practical health check on the workflows running your company while you're busy running it.
The same techniques that let credit agencies score you let your business predict which customers will churn, which orders will go bad, and which inventory will move. A plain-English primer on what data mining can - and shouldn't - do for you.
Two employees doing the same task. Two systems with two versions of the truth. Disconnects nobody flagged because nobody mapped the process end-to-end. The before-and-after of a real process characterization, and why your bottom line tends to follow.
Two employees on the same task. A sales report that reads as revenue. One department's win that becomes another's fire drill. If any of those sound familiar, your processes need a checkup before software can fix anything.