Category Archives: Agile

Why Does Custom Software Cost So Much?

January 3, 2011 – 8:38 pm

After nearly 20 years writing custom software, mostly for corporations in IT departments, there is nearly a uniform meme I encounter among those who sponsor projects that involve custom software development: “Custom software costs too much!” There are stories, anecdotes, studies, and all sorts of experience about how software development schedules that go over time, [...]

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Technical Fraud

June 5, 2009 – 6:52 pm

Most of us understand the idea of, what here in the US, we like to call a lemon in the context of purchasing a car: A lemon is a defective car that is found to have numerous or severe defects not readily apparent before its purchase. Any vehicle with these issues can be termed a ‘lemon,’ and, by extension, any [...]

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