Mark Douglas

I've gotten a lot better at it.

Be laser focused on your core offerings.

Don't take shortcuts on your architecture.

That's a huge one I've learned.

If you do, it's going to cost you a lot of rewrite.

I think the number one issue today and going forward, if you're not aware of it, is you gotta be security, not only cybersecurity, but data security.

States are passing laws for privacy and there's gonna be huge lawsuits.

If you're doing business in California and you have any private data, you gotta follow all kinds of new rules for your privacy data.

I think if you're not paying attention to that, really look deep into that.

Privacy data is a huge thing coming.

Virginia, Colorado, I think another state is just about to pass something.

And then I also believe you've got to properly staff your product management teams, your QA, your engineering, and dedicate them to each product line.

Don't cross them over to different products.

You'll get a lot more efficiency when you keep them on one single product line.

And then you've got to give the development team some margin.

they often don't have any margin and that's their biggest gripe.

They're getting too many shiny objects and then they can't get them what they want.

So I think those are my big top things about how you develop great software.

So let's jump into number three, creating value.

And I think this is a,