The Merchant-Side Gap
Every commerce platform I have ever migrated carried custom code that nobody could explain.
Not “nobody remembered.” Nobody could explain what it did, why it existed, or whether removing it would break …
Wild Card
Somebody on the team tries a new AI tool. It works. They build a proof of concept over a weekend or a slow sprint. The proof of concept does something real: it generates draft backlog items from meeting transcripts, or …
Wild Card
Every conference talk about AI in software development tells the same story. Developers are faster. Code generation is accelerating. Cycle times are dropping. Copilots and code assistants are changing how teams build. …
The Post-Launch Reality
Three weeks before a submission deadline, the bug count is climbing. Regression issues from the last two sprints have stacked up. Security requirements that were acknowledged in month one have not been fully implemented. …
The Merchant-Side Gap
Somewhere in the middle of every commerce replatform negotiation, someone on the merchant side says it. “Can we do this in fewer weeks?”
The honest answer is yes. If you cut scope proportionally, you can …