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Business Plan 101 – Everything you Need to Know Before Jumping on the Business Bandwagon

Openxcell

It plays a crucial role in the success of any mobile app development company. You must review and update the plan periodically to see if you have met your goals or have changed and evolved. To attract employees and a management team. They help companies to keep themselves on target going forward. To attract the investors.

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If there was ever a good time to be sure you have good governance, this is it

The Agile Manager

Since 2006, I've written multiple blog posts , a few articles and self-published an e-book on governing investments in strategic software. Restated, software development is discretionary spend of balance sheet cash that could be directed to other investments or returned to investors.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

In addition to running our robotics coverage, I also run TC’s hardware coverage overall, including all the consumer news and reviews. That involves due diligence, some research and choosing the stories we deem most relevant to our readers. I either write some code or do some design. So, nothing new on that front.

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Outsourcing Version 1: Advice from a CTO

GreenBar

No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. On the other hand, I’ve been building software for over 30 years and managing software developers for 25. Previously I wrote about taking delivery of your V1 software from a contractor.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Likewise, the term "architect" didn't enter popular usage to describe a role in the software field until the late 1990s.

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Digital Transformation 2020 - A Midcourse Correction Guide for CIOs and CTOs

iTexico

It’s not the time to build skyscrapers, it’s the time to construct bunkhouses. However, according to the PWC Global CEO survey, 80% said that digital innovation is critical to their competitive advantage, but 57% said the lack of skilled teams is a key blocker to their growth. Play Long, This Too Shall Pass. Don’t push too hard.

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Rules versus Results

The Agile Manager

Project managers construct elaborately detailed project plans that show business needs decomposed into tasks which are to be performed by specialists in a highly orchestrated effort. If we become Agile, we'll get more done with smaller teams. Because this team writes unit tests, they have higher code quality.