Category: Custom software

If you’re commissioning custom software for the first time, you’ll face an early choice: start with an MVP, or specify everything upfront and build the system in full from the outset? It…

PHP history: from simple script to modern programming language PHP was created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, a software developer at IBM. Lerdorf developed PHP (originally Personal Home Page, later PHP: Hypertext…

Every list of sectors that benefit from custom software names the same handful: manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and financial services. That list is broadly right. But the sector name says far less than…

Everyone does the sums before signing off: quotes lined up side by side, budgets justified, expectations on paper. But once the custom software is up and running, the sums often stop. The…

The most important decisions in a custom software project get made before a single line of code is written. They sit in the questions that do or don’t get raised upfront: what…

A custom software implementation rarely fails on the technology. It fails on diaries: end users who take their first proper look at go-live, a data migration pencilled in as an afterthought, decision-makers…