- They lack the best people. People at the bleeding edge of software development and interface design tend to work for companies like Apple or Google, or to start their own thing, not go build a risk-reporting system for a bank.
- They go about development the wrong way round. They start with a huge list of features and then try to make it usable. Most start-ups do the reverse - they start with something usable and only then think about adding features. I'll be writing a blog post about that on http://www.woobius.com/scribbles sometime soon...
- They lack the best people. People at the bleeding edge of software development and interface design tend to work for companies like Apple or Google, or to start their own thing, not go build a risk-reporting system for a bank.
- They go about development the wrong way round. They start with a huge list of features and then try to make it usable. Most start-ups do the reverse - they start with something usable and only then think about adding features. I'll be writing a blog post about that on http://www.woobius.com/scribbles sometime soon...