Agile@Cork
Agile@Cork graciously hosted me for a talk on software, strategy and product management
What: Four Laws of Software Economics
Where: Blackstone Launchpad Creative Zone, Boole Library UCC, Cork
When: Tuesday, April 12, 630-9 PM
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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 talked through:
Your development team will never (ever) 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
Lively discussion followed about how to push back on business-side organizations that want us to build the wrong things, or projects that aren’t very important. We also recapped news from Silicon Valley.
