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Buying software
- Buying software
Custom software or off the shelf: a test you can run this week
Off-the-shelf usually wins, and it should. Here is the arithmetic that tells you when it stops winning, using hours your team is already losing.
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What a software project costs, and why no website will quote you
What actually drives the price of a custom build, the ongoing costs nobody mentions, and how to get a real estimate inside a week.
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Questions to ask a software company before you hire them
Ownership, handover, what happens after launch, and what happens if they disappear. Written to be useful even if you end up hiring someone else.
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