Lynn Thames' business Excel Software Services, helps manufacturing and distribution companies with software automation. She joins me to help answer the question: What does software development have in common with manufacturing?  Her answer: Agility.

In this episode

• Who is Excel Software Services, and what they do
• How Excel was founded by Lynn's father in 1978
• What kinds of companies Excel work with, and what problems they need help solving
• How Excel solves these problems, with SaaS and custom software solutions
• The challenge and dangers of vendor lock-in when building on a third-party platform like Magento
• Parallels between manufacturing and software development
• The challenges and benefits of doing agile software development for clients
• The importance of trust and buy-in for agile software development
• Value-pricing software development
• Excel's switch from waterfall to agile and Scrum
• Estimating development tasks for clients

Resources
Book: The Phoenix Project
Book: The Goal
Value Pricing

Guest
Lynn Thames
Excel Software Services

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