Choosing a software partner
Comparing proposals, writing an RFP, pricing models, budgets, timelines and what to expect from the team that builds and runs your software.
Guides in this topic
12 Questions Before Renewing a Software Contract
Ownership, access, what the support retainer covered and what leaving would involve, before you sign another year.
Product Analytics: Metrics That Should Shape Your Roadmap
A practical guide to product analytics covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
Software Discovery: Goals, Activities, and Deliverables
A practical guide to software discovery covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
User Acceptance Testing: Process, Checklist, and Criteria
A practical guide to user acceptance testing covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
Software Roadmap: Priorities, Dependencies, and Evidence
A practical guide to software roadmap covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
Application Maintenance: Support, Monitoring, and Releases
A practical guide to application maintenance covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
Total Cost of Software: Build, Run, and Change
A practical guide to total cost of software covering business outcome and scope and assumptions, risk, measurement, and clear next steps.
How to Compare Software Development Proposals
A buyer-focused guide to software development proposals: comparing approaches and partners, managing risk, and learning how to compare outcomes, assumptions, scope boundaries, team, quality, risks, change model, and ownership on equal terms.
How we would work on this
A second team for your next product
A product team that delivers the new build while your engineers maintain the existing system.
Technical judgement on your side of the table
An independent review of the work your developers produce, reported in plain language.
You run the business. We build the product in full.
The complete product, built and operated by us, for a company with no technical team of its own.
Building the product for what comes next
We would rather deliver one product that holds up than three that have to be rebuilt. That standard is the same on every project, whatever its size.
Ali Boran GazelCEO