When Agile Teams Stop Moving Forward
In software development, there is a particular failure mode that looks deceptively calm from the outside. The team is busy, sprints are running, demos are happening. Yet progress has stalled. New features are no longer…
Why Software Development Companies Decline Projects
In the software development market, it is often assumed that the biggest challenge is finding clients. In reality, clients face a mirror problem: finding a development partner who will not only agree to take the…
Stoicism as a Practical Guide for Software Developers
Philosophy is not about beautiful phrases, metaphors, or clever quotations. Real philosophy is an instruction manual for a happy life. If it does not help you act, make decisions, and maintain clarity of thought, it…
Why Clients Do Not See Increased Developer Productivity
While working on estimates for new projects, I increasingly catch myself on an uncomfortable thought. We continue to calculate timelines and budgets as if nothing fundamental has changed in the industry over the past two…
Why Ambition Beats Tech Skills When Hiring a Software Manager
t's easy to think that the success of a software project depends mostly on the choice of tech stack, architecture, or delivery model. But if you’ve ever been involved in a real product build—from MVP…
Harnessing Large Language Models for Efficient Software Development
Introduction The recent wave of agentic large language models (LLMs) has persuaded many executives that code can now be generated at the press of a button. Seasoned engineers know better: when used naïvely, an LLM…
How to Optimise Software Development Costs
Custom software development is often associated with substantial costs. However, contrary to widespread assumptions, a significant proportion of these expenses arise not during programming itself, but far earlier—at the stage of architectural design. It is…
Dependency Roulette: How One Tiny Update Took Down Production
Third-party dependencies are a double-edged sword—convenient until they suddenly break everything. Here’s a real-world incident from our collection that perfectly illustrates this risk.The Setup: How We Managed Python DependenciesWe use the pretty standard and simple…
Lost in Translation: When ‘False’ Means ‘True’
Three days of troubleshooting over one conversion... Yes, it happens. Here’s how.We develop a software suite for cognitive testing, helping researchers detect early signs of dementia. The suite includes:A Swift-based iPad appA Node.js web applicationOne…