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Developers disappear. Sometimes it is illness or a family crisis, sometimes a better client, sometimes a business quietly failing, and occasionally a relationship someone decided to walk away…
Read article →Inheriting a Shopify store is a specific kind of project, and both sides typically get it wrong in predictable ways. Clients underestimate it, assuming that because the store…
Read article →Pricing models are usually discussed as though one is inherently fairer. They are not. Each one moves risk to a different place, and the right choice depends on…
Read article →Most development disputes are not really contract disputes. They are disagreements about what was agreed, happening between parties who never wrote it down clearly. Which is the useful…
Read article →If you have received quotes ranging from £4,000 to £20,000 for what you thought was one project, the cause is almost never that some developers are greedy. It…
Read article →The useful thing about bad development engagements is that they announce themselves early. Almost every disaster we have been asked to fix was preceded by a signal in…
Read article →Agency websites display partner badges prominently, and clients reasonably assume they mean something specific about quality. They mean something — just not quite what most people assume. Understanding…
Read article →We are an offshore development team, which makes this an awkward article to write well. The temptation is to produce a defence, and a defence would be useless…
Read article →The usual framing of this question is which model is best, which has no answer. A more useful framing: each model fails in a predictable way, and the…
Read article →Most agency selection processes evaluate the wrong things. Portfolios are curated, case studies are written by the agency, and a good sales call demonstrates that someone is good…
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