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Lynn Thames — What do software development and manufacturing have in common? Agility.

Lynn Thames — What do software development and manufacturing have in common? Agility.

Update: 2022-03-01
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Lynn Thames' business Excel Software Services, helps manufacturing and distribution companies with software automation. She joins me to help answer the question: What does software development have in common with manufacturing?  Her answer: Agility.

In this episode

  • Who is Excel Software Services, and what they do
  • How Excel was founded by Lynn's father in 1978
  • What kinds of companies Excel work with, and what problems they need help solving
  • How Excel solves these problems, with SaaS and custom software solutions
  • The challenge and dangers of vendor lock-in when building on a third-party platform like Magento
  • Parallels between manufacturing and software development
  • The challenges and benefits of doing agile software development for clients
  • The importance of trust and buy-in for agile software development
  • Value-pricing software development
  • Excel's switch from waterfall to agile and Scrum
  • Estimating development tasks for clients

Resources
Book: The Phoenix Project
Book: The Goal
Value Pricing

Guest
Lynn Thames
Excel Software Services

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Lynn Thames — What do software development and manufacturing have in common? Agility.

Lynn Thames — What do software development and manufacturing have in common? Agility.

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