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Recently, when speaking with prospective clients, instead of focusing on the features they want, I like to ask questions like:<\/p>\n\n
What's wrong with what you have now?<\/p>\n\n
Why not fix what you have instead of rebuilding?<\/p>\n\n
What problem are you trying to solve?<\/p>\n\n
Why write software for this at all?<\/p>\n\n
Why not do it manually?<\/p>\n\n
Why do you need to do this now?<\/p>\n\n
What results would you expect to see after this project?<\/p>\n\n
If they can answer these types of questions and explain the business outcomes they're looking to achieve and what value I can add, those are the projects I want to work on.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
Recently, when speaking with prospective clients, instead of focusing on the features they want, I like to ask questions like:<\/p>\n\n
What's wrong with what you have now?<\/p>\n\n
Why not fix what you have instead of rebuilding?<\/p>\n\n
What problem are you trying to solve?<\/p>\n\n
Why write software for this at all?<\/p>\n\n
Why not do it manually?<\/p>\n\n
Why do you need to do this now?<\/p>\n\n
What results would you expect to see after this project?<\/p>\n\n
If they can answer these types of questions and explain the business outcomes they're looking to achieve and what value I can add, those are the projects I want to work on.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "e52d296563e9560ea0b8d1060cc77506", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }