Category Archives: Software Development

Innovation Debt

If you work with software engineers you likely hear the phrase “technical debt” regularly.* This is a painful reality for active projects, but just as painful is something you won’t hear discussed: Innovation Debt. We incur this debt from failing to innovate and renovate ourselves and our products. While the pain from this kind of debt isn’t felt as quickly, when the bill comes due it may be more expensive than a firm can bear.

In most companies only the executives think or talk about the need for innovation, while those with Continue reading

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Know Your User – Simplify!

Which site do you prefer, Yahoo, or Google?

Yahoo Google

Clearly, most of us prefer the clean and simple interface of Google. But why is that? I don’t think it’s Continue reading

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“My Team Is Perfect,” Or Why You Need QA

Even a cursory look online you will net lots of opinion and research telling you why software development is so much more predictable and efficient with proper software quality assurance (SQA), yet almost every small software shop decides SQA is one of the roles they can do without. Continue reading

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