Big architecture decisions have big business impact. Wardley maps help us identify money pits in product development. They show us the way how to save money by commoditising hardware and software that is not part of our core business.
Review of the book "How Big Things Get Done" by Bent Flybjerg et al. If complex projects run over budget, they do so spectacularly. Experimenting heavily during architecture gets the big decisions right - early. Implementing the right decisions efficiently saves tons of money. Think slow, act fast!
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From Qt 5.15, The Qt Company make their offering a bit more inconvenient for FOSS users. They announced three changes: * A Qt account is mandatory to download binary Qt packages. The offline installer is not available to FOSS users
The beginning of this month marked my sixth anniversary of becoming a solo consultant. I don't regret my decision and cannot imagine ever giving up solo consulting. I was essential in the implementation of some really interesting projects
My favourite business book of 2018 is It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The reason why people work crazy hours is not that there is [...] more work to be
After offshoring and near-shoring, there is a new outsourcing trend: domestic outsourcing. For example, a company in California outsources work to a company in Indiana or Wisconsin. A New York Times article sheds some light on the reasons for domestic
Three years ago aged 45, I started as a freelance software developer in Southern Germany. It were three pretty amazing years. I had paid work for 522.5 days of 750 working days, which amounts to nearly 70% of total
Over the last 1.5 years, I worked with two Western automotive tier-1 suppliers who use near- and far-shoring to develop most parts of their infotainment systems. Both suppliers use offshoring to reduce their development costs. But how can these