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(AI) Tools don’t make products.  Strategy makes products.

Posted on December 20, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve been hearing and seeing a lot about the introduction of AI into software development processes.  I’ve seen it happen myself – the impetus can come from both developers wanting a better way to automate drudge code conversions as well as upper management wanting to reduce headcounts. AI-assisted software…

Managing multiple remote engineering teams for fun and profit

Posted on December 9, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

COVID-19 drove many workers home, and now many companies are trying to reel those same workers back to the office.  Is this smart? Answer: (as always) It depends.  I’m going to talk a bit about this today from the point of view of software evolutionary pressure, rather than the more common (but perhaps more important)…

Beginning & Project Management

Posted on November 7, 2025December 31, 2025 by William Li

Beginnings are always the hardest thing to do, in life as in writing as in projects and products.  So here I am beginning my blog on technology and project management with an article about beginning. There are 3 components to good beginnings.  The first, trite as it may sound, is to begin.  The impetus to…

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