November 12th, 2008Scrum and Partnership
Some people would like to believe that building complex software is like going to the grocery store: pick a candy bar off of the shelf, ask what it costs and decide to buy it. You get no risk and quick gratification. But building custom software is more like building a race car. A special one-off product to meet exactly the needs of its sponsor: win races.
As a customer, what are you really buying when you contract for software development? You may think you are getting a solution. But what you are really getting is an implementation team. And risk is always part of the bargain. So what you really want is a team you can trust to build your product and to minimize the risk of that choice, that is the reason why we handle projects in a partnership way. We (Boulevart & Customer) are building the solution the customer wants at the end and not the solution the customer thought off in the beginning as his/her ideas change during the project.
