Software projects fail for a multitude of reasons, but the root cause is often an issue deemed so elementary that it’s easily overlooked. That’s until milestones are missed, schedules slide, and digital projects waiting in the pipeline have to be sidelined, at great...
Nick Fury
APIs: Ushering in a New Age of Complexity
APIs: “Anyone can build an app with these things!” Last week I was chatting with a friend about the sheer scope of apps available on every app store these days. When smartphones were still in their infancy, I remember someone making a mint on an app that made...
Narrowing the AgTech Culture Gap
As I wrote last time, I didn’t know much about farming when I got into AgTech. I did, however, know about technology and a bit about farmers. I grew up in a town of less than five hundred people who relied on the land and ocean to survive. I worked in the fields to...
What We Can Learn from AgTech
I didn’t expect to be a digital farmer. Like many people who grew up in a small town, I played a bit of Farm Simulator and read Little House on the Prairie, but that was the extent of my interest in agriculture. What fascinated me was the shiny new world unfolding...