It is very common for startup businesses to pivot (i.e. change their proposition) as their business grows. It is less common for businesses to bake in the chance of a pivot when they start. What does youTube, Flickr and Twitter have in common? You may know that youTube started life as a dating platform. Twitter …
An obsession with the creation and maintenance of a product roadmap is one of the best ways to stop focusing on your customer. It is a meaningless exercise that adds little or no value to a product organisation. It’s the purpose not the Destination Years ago, when I was in my late teens, my friend …
Having a good software architecture is really important if you want to make money. This article tries to simplify the technology into a very short, non technical article that will help non technical business leaders understand what ‘software architecture’ means’ and why it is important to the bottom line. I was asked by a business …
I was speaking to a friend the other day and they asked what is the best programming language. Of course the answer to that is, ‘it depends’, however if you are going to choose a language you should choose one that is popular. If you don’t do that, you mat find it difficult to find …