Lynn Thames — What do software development and manufacturing have in common? Agility.
Update: 2022-03-01
Description
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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