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Set your priorities

Joel has a new article out, on the topic of setting your priorities for new development. I am mostly in the consultingware business, and love his characterization of it. Most companies I’ve worked for want to get in the shrinkware business, but for various reasons it’s hard to do (mostly because you have to invest time and money up front–I have seen several attempts to build a product on top of work done for a customer, but never a success)–whereas selling your labor is easy. However, I think that his fast and loose prioritization scheme would work well for custom software development too.