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Product Owners Shouldn’t Shy Away from Customer Surveys

Customer feedback must inform active product development. This feedback can be used to validate assumptions, provide direction on which features to build, and help understand marke

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Cross-Platform Mobile Frameworks – Benefits & Tradeoffs

Cross-platform mobile can achieve significant cost savings and make launching your app easier. But there are still design flexibility and platform risks.

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Is Software the Best Solution? These 5 Questions Will Help You Decide

Custom software may seem like a quick solution to your problem, but is it the best, most efficient one? Here's how to ask the right questions.

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Why Milestone-Based Payments Are Never a Good Idea for Custom Software

On every custom software project, something will go wrong. That makes milestone-based payments a horrible idea—they cause stress, and somebody always loses.

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Is Your New Feature Worth It?

Don't let your excitement overtake and derail your great product. Refine it, and add new features, but only when they make sense.

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What Software Design Is & How it Makes Software Much, Much Better

With good software design, applications are built with purpose, backed by buy-in from users, and supported by a plan for continuous improvement.

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There’s No Such Thing as a “Massive MVP.” Build Releases Instead!

The best way to solve an overwhelming problem is to break it into smaller pieces. So let's build software in incremental releases.

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How to Reduce Duplication & Get the Most from Your Custom Software

Software developers have the mantra: “don’t repeat yourself” in code. Applying this to buying software can prevent 3 big problems caused by duplication.

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Test your Software Rewrite with a Pilot Release

Why a pilot? You can test your updated/rewritten software (or a piece of it) with a small group before fully rolling it out to all users.

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Why Your App/System Rewrite Will Probably Be Bigger Than You Think

Users will lose trust in a rewritten system if they cannot do everything they expected to do. This is especially true for internal systems.

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Have a Big Software Idea? Start Small, then Make it Better

Investing in a large, "world-changing" first release is wasteful and dangerous. Successful companies launch a small, valuable product, then start learing.

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Prioritize Your (or Your Client’s) Projects Using Relative Weighting

This exercise forces key stakeholders to discuss relative value and effort of each initiative. And it gives them information to make an informed decision.

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