Talk: Four Laws of Software Economics (Business of Software)
I was thrilled to share the Business of Software stage with Alex Osterwalder, Paul Kenney, David Heinemeier Hansson, and other tech stars.
Talk: Four Laws of Software Economics
Where: Business of Software conference, Boston, Sept 2015 (agenda)
Video, courtesy of BoS:
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There are some fundamental laws of software economics that should drive executive-level decisions about business and product strategies. It’s easy to forget them, or decide they don’t apply to our special situation. (Gravity’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.) We defined a few, including:
Your development team will never be big enough
All of the profits are in the nth copy
Software bits are not the (whole) product
You can’t outsource your strategy
(I’ve serialized this into four posts starting here.)