Covers project management aspects, collaboration, avoiding failures, and the key roles in a successful software project.
Skip the design phase and you're paying programmers to figure out your business in real time - at programmer rates. Part two on the deliverable that decides whether your build runs lean or hemorrhages hours.
Political campaigns and growing businesses share one make-or-break problem: which data to trust, and what to do with it once you have it. Part one of a four-part series that uses a city council race to expose every database mistake we see in industry.
Collecting data is the easy half. The hard half - and where most businesses lose the thread - is asking whether any of it is actually relevant to the decision in front of you. Part two on turning raw data into real answers.
Bad data isn't just useless - it's expensive. Every wrong customer you talk to costs you the right one you didn't. Part three on how disciplined database design separates dollars spent from dollars wasted.
Winning once is luck. Winning twice is a system - and that system lives in your database. The final part of our campaign series on what to capture after the deal closes so you can replicate the win on purpose.
The cheapest software vendor is rarely the cheapest software project. Six questions that separate partners who'll deliver from vendors who'll disappear - asked before you sign, not after the deadline slips.
You wouldn't ask your CFO to also run sales, marketing, and HR. So why is the most common custom-software staffing plan still "hire one programmer and hope"? The six distinct roles every real project requires.
If software project nightmares are costing you sleep before the project even starts, you're paying attention to the right risks. Ten executive-level moves that move the success needle long before a developer touches the keyboard.
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.
Beta isn't a victory lap - it's the last cheap chance to find what isn't working before your team has to live with it for years. How smart companies use beta installation, training, and site testing to surface problems while they're still inexpensive.