Decision-making
Picking a technology for a client project
Picking a technology to develop expertise and sell services
Why have a technology decision-making process?
In short, choosing a particular technology allows us to:
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Make a decision once and leverage the results over and over
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Increase profitability
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Increase developer satisfaction
Ask Freelock: Why haven't you migrated to Drupal 8?
Richard asks:
Just a question after reading an article posted here back from January 21, 2016 on Drupal 8, why Freelock.com has not moved to Drupal 8? Just wondering if there was a particular reason we should avoid before jumping in? Thanks.
Making technology decisions in a sea of alternatives
July 2013
If you learned how to make decisions before the fall of the Berlin Wall, you might get overwhelmed by decision making today. We used to live in a fairly black-and-white world -- East versus West, Pepsi or Coke, Miller or Bud, Democrat or Republican, ABC, NBC, or CBS.
How do you decide? If you're like a great many people in my generation, one tactic might be to create a list of pros and cons for each of the alternatives, and then compare these lists side-by-side. Ok, great! Let's use that to select a content management system. Let's see, what are our alternatives?