Software Development Insights

If you’re a founder (or considering becoming one), you’ve probably heard the advice: build to scale. Hire the right people, delegate tasks, and free yourself up to focus on the big picture. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this advice (no one expects you to carry the weight of your company... Read More

As a software founder, one of the most critical moments you’ll face is trying to secure software startup funding. Whether you’re a startup or growth-stage company, raising capital is very often a pivotal part of your business growth. Having worked on over 200 innovative software products in the last 15... Read More

Perfection is the enemy of good. I know it’s a cliche, but it’s a cliche for a reason — this one is true. For our purposes, if you’re a software startup founder (or the head of engineering in an enterprise software company), you’re probably all-too-familiar with the constant tug-of-war between... Read More

When you’re an early-stage software startup, making your first in-house hire can feel like a pivotal moment… because it is one! We get this question allll the time: “Help! Who should my first in-house hire be?! And that’s for good reason; there’s a lot on the line — product vision,... Read More

If you lead engineering or software development within your enterprise, you know that you walk a shaky tightrope between maintaining your existing systems and pushing forward with new innovations. Balancing technical debt and new feature development is no easy feat — sure, you have to service technical debt, but you... Read More

We’re doing something a little different this month. Instead of a normal ENO8 Answers webinar + video, we wanted to switch it up and interview someone with decades of experience building and launching software startups who could speak to all things founder’s journey.  I met Brenda Stoner about a decade... Read More

I wish the news coming out of startup-land were better, but unless you’ve pivoted to A.I. in some way, funding is tighter, budgets are shrinking, layoffs are in the news every other week, job searches are taking forever… it’s grim. (Not to mention the fact that too many of those... Read More

It’s the boring stuff that makes or breaks businesses. Maintenance? Boring. Daily stand up? Boring. Data scrubbing? Boring. But if you’re not doing those things well and often, your product can crumble. We all love to focus on inventions and new features because they’re fun, capture our imaginations and can... Read More

We’ve built hundreds of innovative digital products over the last decade. With that experience comes some trends — you start to notice signals for success. One of the biggest signals we see in product development success is on the staffing front. We’ve identified three mission-critical roles and what it takes... Read More

“How do we become more innovative” — it’s a question we’re asked by clients, friends, collaborators, you name it. People know they need to innovate to keep their companies competitive, but they’re not sure what steps they should be taking to get there. It’s 2 million steps… but not in... Read More

Innovation and risk go hand in hand. Whenever you’re innovating (or trying to), you’re by definition trying to change something about the way you do business. Whether it’s changing a process, expanding into a new market, whatever, you’re taking a risk. The risk could be time, it could be money,... Read More

In the halcyon days before ChatGPT, there was a lot of chatter about what artificial intelligence (AI) would actually do for different businesses/industries. We saw cool displays like AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero destroy the world’s best Go players (which we were actually writing about all the way back in 2017).... Read More

When we talk about digital product development, terms like ‘iteration’ and ‘innovation’ are often thrown around. But what do they really mean? And how do they influence the way we approach product strategy? And perhaps most importantly, why does it matter that iteration ≠ innovation? Iteration ≠ innovation, the directors... Read More

The adrenaline rush following a successful software product launch can be intoxicating, but what follows is less of a celebratory toast and more of a pivotal question: “What now?” No matter what industry you find yourself in, there’s a pretty strong likelihood you’ll end up building or leveraging a software... Read More