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In software project management, communications is key to ensuring that your project will be successful. It keeps you up to date with how the project is proceeding, shows the developer that you care about the project, and that you are willing to get involved to ensure its success. Providing rapid feedback to your developer is important […]

Unfortunately, a large percentage of software development projects fail. These statistics can often be daunting to someone taking on a new software project. That’s why it is important to understand the definition of failure as it is different for every project, and is based on who is defining the success or failure. For example, to […]

Needless to say, if you have a lot of bugs in the software, your customers won’t be happy. Since developers are notoriously poor at testing their own code, it is up to you to ensure that the program gets tested. This might mean you wind up doing the testing or might mean you have to […]

While putting together some more information for a book and workshop on website performance optimization, I did some research on tools to help with the process. The goal was to find a cost effective way to analyze and fix my websites in a way that minimizes the time I spend on the process. While many […]

It is important to give deep thought as to what you want to accomplish with the software. If you tell a builder that you want a building and give no other amplifying information, what do you think you would get? Would you get a house, a garage, an office building, or something else? About all […]

How does one define success and/or failure when discussing software development projects? Well, it depends on who you’re talking to. The end user’s definition of success will most likely be quite different than the business who is paying to develop the product. Let’s look at an example of what a business’s definition of success might […]

When you are looking for a developer you should keep the following in mind. Experience References Communications skills Availability Cost First off, the developer should be experienced. Experienced developers have already made a bunch of mistakes and hopefully learned from them. The inexperienced developer will be learning on your dime. Experience will help them make […]

Depending on who you listen to, the majority of software projects are failures. In order to determine if a software development project is successful, you must first understand the meaning of success. In this article we’re going to define how we determine whether a project is a success, discuss some known factors that lead to […]