Exploring the considerations and choices involved in custom software development, including comparisons between offshore and onshore options.
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.
A 200-page spec document still won't save a project a single screen mockup could have rescued. Why pictures - not paragraphs - are the cheapest insurance policy you can buy on a custom software build.
Whoever writes the requirements owns the project's outcome - and most companies hand that pen to the wrong person. Here's how to decide whether your team, your vendor, or a third party should be holding it.
You'd never order a bespoke suit without measurements - but companies routinely commission six-figure software builds without quantifying a single requirement. Here's the measuring tape every executive should hand to a development partner before signing the contract.
Most failed software projects didn't fail at coding - they failed before the first developer was hired. Part one of a four-part walkthrough on what to write down before you write a single check.
Late, over budget, business-disrupting - software's bad reputation is mostly earned. After 30+ years of custom builds, here's the repeatable playbook that separates the projects executives celebrate from the ones they quietly write off.
Post-pandemic, you can outsource a custom software project to anywhere on the map - so why pick a partner across town instead of across the world? The hidden cost of distance, and where Florida companies still come out ahead.
"Bob died." Three decades in this business and that's still the call we get most often from companies whose entire operation runs on one developer's laptop. The single point of failure most CEOs never see coming.
Successful software projects aren't a myth - they're a process. After 30 years and hundreds of builds, here are the foundation pieces that determine whether you ship on time or end up in next year's cautionary tale.
Programming is the phase everyone pictures - and the phase where the fewest projects actually go off the rails. Part three on what should and shouldn't surprise you once your developers start writing real code.
"Custom is too expensive." "It'll take forever." "We're not big enough." Five widely-held myths about custom software - and the operational reality that's costing companies far more than the investment ever would.