One of my favorite nuggets of wisdom I learned during my formal education years was discovering the two significant phases of entrepreneurship: Exploration and Exploitation. After completing my MBA in Entrepreneurship, helping businesses understand that there is a time for exploring and a separate time for exploiting became one of my most referred to topics. I …
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At Rackless, we have a fascination with web statistics. We often recommend to our friends and clients the saying ‘Stand on the shoulders of giants.’ What that means is that to partner with companies that have huge resources and will be in business 5-years from now. There is nothing fun about having to replace a …
Software frameworks help product owners, entrepreneurs, and executives get their software apps up and running quickly.
Why? Because a software framework is a collection of code maintained by expert software developers that serve as the foundation for your own software.
Over the years, there have been countless debates over the advantages and disadvantages of Agile vs. Waterfall. Even within the Agile community, debates rage over whether Scrum or Kanban is superior. Jason Fried, the co-founder of Basecamp, an online project management system, didn’t miss the opportunity to add his opinion to the debate. He states …
In building software or starting any new endeavor, you may face taunts of lunacy just like Ray faced in the movie Field of Dreams.
Jeff Bezos has shared that he uses the Regret Minimization Framework in helping him make decisions like whether to build or not to build.
Rather than focus on whether they will come, trust in knowing that if you ‘don’t’ build it, they, most definitely, won’t come.
Often a company uses the title IT Director when the company either doesn’t develop software and a title with the word Officer isn’t politically acceptable.
The title Chief Information Officer is used to signal the person speaks on behalf for the company regarding strategy with shareholders, board members, media and more.
