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Buying the Tech or Buying the Business? What a Good Tech Due Diligence Tells You

In one Tech Due Diligence I was part of, the product handled payments. In our first walkthrough we asked a lot of questions about transactions. What happens if a payment fails halfway? How do you make sure the data stays correct?The technology team had good answers. Every flow was safe, every failure was rolled back, the data always stayed consistent. The explanation was clear, confident and complete.It was too good to be true.So we asked for a code walkthrough focusing...

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Building an AI-First Software Engineering Organisation

AI makes implementation cheaper. Organisations will capture the benefit only if they redesign how they discover problems, make decisions, maintain context and validate what they release.Engineering organisations still use structures designed for a period when producing code was time-consuming: detailed handovers before anybody could see a result, plans calibrated around implementation effort, and review and quality assurance (QA) practices that combined technical, product and risk checks. Adding an AI coding tool does not resolve the mismatch between cheaper implementation and...

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