Chapter 8 Special Considerations for Bespoke Software

DOI: 10.4324/9781003427766-8

Spend more than five minutes with me in person, and I’ll happily tell you that I learnt to write computer software when was 8 years old. Now, a good number of years later, I continue to write software every day. My first love is software. If you sequence my DNA and this was even vaguely possible, you’d see the words “BESPOKE SOFTWARE” written in my genes.

For me, there is no more appropriate application of bespoke software than within business. However, in 2024, established companies rarely buy bespoke software.

To qualify that, within the types of projects discussed in this book, the implementation aspect is always bespoke. The core system that you buy will ...

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