Welcome to the SME software cookbook. I’m glad you found me and I have a lot to share with you. I want to dramatically change the way you think about and create software for your business. I am going to create a cookbook of techniques and recipes to teach SME (Small & Medium Enterprise) business how to successfully create software.
Who is this for?
The cookbook is for non-developers, small business owners, IT managers, anyone who needs to build a small piece of custom software to help their business grow and feels like they can’t do it because:
- They aren’t technically minded and don’t have anyone on staff that knows how to make a software project happen.
- They feel like the software creation process is a big black box that you throw money into and nothing comes out but endless screaming.
- They have had a big, bad, no good, HORRIBLE experience with a developer(s) or software company in the past.
- They don’t want to be a developer. There is too much to learn.
- It is too risky and scary, like moving through fog at night with no idea where you are and your phone is at 1%.
If that is you, you are in luck
I don’t want to train you as a developer. I don’t want to train you as a project manager. I want to train you (or even better, someone who reports to you) to be someone who can easily put together a small software project, hire a developer, meet your milestones, CRUSH your deliverables and make everyone wildly happy. In other words, I want to train you to think like a software architect, no degree required.
It isn’t that hard.
You have got to be kidding me?
Nope. Really. It isn’t that hard. We definitely MAKE it that hard for ourselves because of a lack of organized thinking and a software industry that makes software for developers, by developers.
If we organize ourselves and change how we think of the software project as a task, we can get our software built.
I should know, that is what I do.
I’ve been a developer, technical project manager and above all a software architect for over 15 years. I’m built applications for small business and large enterprises.
I have learned over the years that most business owners have been taught ideas about software and information technology that do not serve them and make them avoid innovation as something that is too expensive and out of reach.
It is time to change all that and find a better way.
Come along for the ride…
Over the next six months I’m hoping to change the way you think about building software so you can more easily innovate, automate and effect change for the better within your business, without breaking your budget.