Irish industry Like many people in the Irish Software sector, I recently read through the Irish Software Landscape Study. My curiosity was not only due to drastic media headlines such as ‘Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas’ but it’s…

Sometime it feels that for a lot of companies working in software development, deadlines are something that should be kept a bit vague, a bit ‘could be this week, or could be next week’. I would like to propose an immediate end…

An issue that often arises during the early stages of a new software product is that different team members have varying ideas about the direction a feature, key messages or layout should take. Usually the product manager/entreprenuer has a pretty strong idea…

A lot of labels are used to describe a good software development process. You may have come across software development teams describing themselves as being “lean” or “agile”. They may tell you they use “scrum methodologies” or an “iterative approach.” This is…