A not entirely serious flowchart of when to hire permanent staff Building your own team is part of the thrill and promise of being an entrepreneur, but it’s often the right decision to rely on talent from outside the business. Both outsourcing and scaling your own team have risks and benefits. In a previous article, […]
Outsource or do it yourself — a guide to keeping work in-house (or not) Read More »
Photo by Clark Young on Unsplash One of the things that I hear repeated, and believed myself for many years, was that contractors or outsourced agencies are much more expensive than permanent employees. Whilst that can often be true, it’s not quite as simple as most people think. In the past, when I tried to understand
Mythbusting the costs of building teams and outsourcing work Read More »
Photo by Nathan Aghelsefat Abatari on Unsplash So, you’re faced with the challenge of deciding between building your own software or buying something off the shelf. Your customers might need new features, your staff may need some help running a process specific to your business or investors might want to see the value of their investment
When to build and when to buy; on the lure of building software Read More »
Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash At a basic level, resilience is the ability for something to withstand disruption. Efficiency is the quest for optimal output with minimum waste. Resilience and efficiency are not in direct opposition, however focusing too much on one can have a negative impact on the other. For much of my career
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This is the third article in my series on how to create a vision and a strategy, prioritise your work and create a roadmap for new and existing products. TLDR; The key is to move from high uncertainty to low uncertainty as quickly and cheaply as possible. There’s a sneaky problem with innovation: it always