To buy or build software

Dave Levy
2 min readMar 19, 2024

One of the critical decisions taken when implementing software is the decision to build or buy.

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I have written elsewhere, about the approach I take on this, influenced by a course given by Dan Remenyi. He argues, and I agree that one needs to understand the competitive value of the process being undertaken and the extent to which software can I add to or at the least not minimise that value. Where a system’s role is…

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Dave Levy

Brit, Londoner, economist, Labour, privacy, cybersecurity, traveller, father - mainly writing about UK politics & IT, https://linktr.ee/davelevy