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 …
The Post-Launch Reality
You built the integration. The code is clean. The feature set matches the spec. The team is proud of the work, and they should be. QA passed in your staging environment. The demo looks good.
Now you have to submit it to …
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. …
Wild Card
There is an old observation in software engineering called Conway’s Law. It says that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structures. It was published in 1967. It has been restated, …
The Merchant-Side Gap
Every commerce replatform I have been part of treats go-live as the finish line. The SOW is structured around it. The project plan counts down to it. The executive team celebrates it. The SI sends the final invoice …