August 2017 - Software++

Business: Why Your Software Sucks

August 30, 2017January 18, 2020 by Cory

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“What do you mean the server went down?” asks the CEO. “It has been happening every week” the lead tech says. “It didn’t do that for the other customers,” laments the CEO. The tech replies “This customer is ten thousand times larger than all the other customers combined. We didn’t build the application to handle … Read more

Dealing with Tech Smokescreens

August 15, 2017July 27, 2020 by Cory

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Spend some time working directly on the front lines of tech startups, and you might notice a fascinating thing about investors, startup founders, and small company executives: they often have no idea how to tell good software from bad, nor competence from incompetence. Buyer beware! It is all too common for a non-technical person to … Read more