Easy to sale ain’t Easy to build

Easy to sale software:

  • has a nice UI (neat logo, neat look and feel)
  • is easy to set up quickly and to demo (has a lot of “by default” options so you don’t need to tweak everything to start with)
  • has graphical configuration (business users envision that it will be easy/cheap to maintain and that they will not need the IT department
    to make a little change)
  • is sold by great sales people (people who focus on the strengths of the software and lie about everything else)

 

Easy to build software:

  • has different configuration levels (graphical / configuration file / coding against an API / overriding code).
  • enables a flexible implementation process (modifications / parrallel work …)
  • is well documented technically
  • has a responsive technical support
  • has very few bugs

Dear customers, choose “easy to build”!!

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