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Modernising legacy software without a rewrite
Big-bang rewrites ask a business to stand still for a year and carry all the risk until the end. Here is the incremental alternative, how to choose the first slice, and how to justify it to a board that does not care about technical debt.
How to choose a software development partner
Portfolios and day rates tell you almost nothing. Six questions that reveal how a partner actually works, the answers worth trusting, and the four engagement shapes with their honest failure modes.
Choosing your first automation: a scoring method that beats intuition
The first process you automate decides whether there is a second one. Here is a four-factor score for picking it, with a worked example — and the two processes that look ideal and are not.
How much does it cost to build a SaaS product? An honest answer
Every published figure for building a SaaS product is either a marketing number or a range so wide it means nothing. Here is what actually drives the cost, and how to get an estimate you can rely on.
Custom software vs SaaS: the three questions that actually decide it
Most build-versus-buy debates argue about features. Features are the least predictive input. Here are the three questions that decide the answer in practice, and the arithmetic most teams leave out.