Author Archives: Ger Kelly
Why outsourcing abroad is bad idea
Outsourcing is the movement of a task or group of tasks to an external company as part of quality or cost reducing measures. The main reasons to outsource are: Your team doesn’t have the skills (or strong enough skills) in … Continue reading
Technology is moving towards fashion
Absolutely fantastic quote from Evan Williams of Twitter (found here): “As happens in most industries, value creation is moving up the stack. That is, companies make money in new technology-driven arenas at first by differentiating on performance, engineering, cost, etc. … Continue reading
Get out of the way
An important point: software is a conduit. Software has not, nor ever will, grant us the ability to do new things. It merely facilitates actions which we have been doing since the beginning of time. iPod? Music was around before … Continue reading