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How do you manage the way you build, manage and market your software product?
Get ready for an obvious statement: things have changed a lot over the last 30 years of IT. How did IT used to be organised? How it is now? Long ago, when a company wanted a new system is that they would look around, or more likely use a consultancy to help them decide. A …
Following up from yesterday’s post on Minimal Viable Product, I received some great feedback on just how the MVP has lost its way. A couple of classic warning signs are the use of multiple MVPs in a project, or using it interchangeably with a Proof of Concept (PoC). Neither of these get to the heart …
Much is made of the MVP – the Minimal Viable Product – but so rarely is it executed in a meaningful and valuable way. So how do you achieve that? Take an idea, form it quickly and work closely with a developer, a designer and a marketer to realise it as soon as possible. Sounds …
Got those servers hanging around with Windows NT still on them? Got that VM sitting in prod which might be a bastion host or it might be a waste of space? How do you know? Sometimes you need to take a risk. Sometimes you can turn something off without turning something off. You can take …
A while back I had the great idea of writing a web app that would do easy and secure video and PDF embedding for websites. I even got so far as getting a prototype working based on AWS cloudfront, mediaconvert and a React app. You login, upload your video or PDF and get a secure …
Yesterday’s email about incident management led me to find another interesting and related podcast. Reducing On-Call Engineer Burnout with a Volunteer Management Infrastructure from TopEndDevs.com is a discussion with Brian Scanlon from Intercom. It dives very deep into the way that their on-call system works. Intercom prefers to use a single 24/7 on call engineer …
There’s much already been written on how to build software, how to build products, how to build teams that build systems. But the main point to consider, is that a software product, or any product, needs to have a happy audience for it to be useful. It may have an audience of few, it may …
The engineer has a mindset which leaps on solutions. Because of the way that we are wired, our solution-orientation makes us sometimes harder to approach and more easily distracted by shiny things which to others might seem disconnected or unimportant. Sometimes the leaps we make in our minds as engineers can help our business. In …
Are you in the charity sector? Are you in the retail sector? Are you in communications? Are you in the banking sector? Are you in the tech sector? Does it actually matter what sector you are in when you look at the technology you use? We all use zoom. We all use teams. We all …
The great thing about technology is that it’s a leveller. It’s an enabler. It’s not a reason to change, but it delivers reasons to change. Ask yourself, what’s holding your business back from taking advantage of that kind of leverage? Do you feel the benefit of your systems or do you feel like they are …