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How to Invest Less and Make More From Your Software Projects

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As the saying goes, “Cash is king.” It doesn’t matter how good your P&L or balance sheet looks or how good the business case for your project is, if you don’t have enough cash every month to pay the bills, you won’t stay in business.

With the economy tightening, then, companies are desperately trying to cut costs in order to stay cash flow positive. In IT the major cost is salary, so cutting costs means cutting people. Nobody likes that.

Fortunately, there’s a simple way to reduce expenses and increase returns on a software project: incremental releases.

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October 14th, 2008 at 3:15 pm