“No matter what you are trying to do, if the thought of it doesn’t scare the hell out of you – and if imagining the manifestation of it doesn’t make you cry – it isn’t worthy of who you truly are.” – Dan Pallotta The WDDinc perspective: Not only do we experience this through our our business, but every client allows us to vicariously be part of theirs. Every …

From Getting Real – 37 Signals Running software is the best way to build momentum, rally your team, and flush out ideas that don’t work. It should be your number one priority from day one. It’s ok to do less, skip details, and take shortcuts in your process if it’ll lead to running software faster. Once you’re there, you’ll be rewarded with a significantly more accurate perspective on how …

From Getting Real – 37 Signals Here’s an easy way to launch on time and on budget: keep them fixed. Never throw more time or money at a problem, just scale back the scope. There’s a myth that goes like this: we can launch on time, on budget, and on scope. It almost never happens and when it does quality often suffers. If you can’t fit everything in within …

I remember everything about the day when the stock market dropped 700+ points. I couldn’t believe it. I thought that it could not happen again. Well, it did… a few more times. Panic was spreading like a virus in one of those movies that stars a monkey. It was chaos. Companies were cutting budgets, stopping projects, and doing everything they could to save cash. People were being sent to …

One of the most baffling issues in the world of software development is the seemingly magical way a software development project tends to grow beyond its time and cost bounds. The following White Paper outlines a development technique that we have used with success to bound software development projects and deliver viable products at a projected time and expense budget. The technique we will discuss is known as the …