Tod1d's Thought Process

Title

In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

Author

Joel Spolsky

Description

This two and a quarter page article is quite good and, I think quite applicable to the non-profit organization that I work for. They are a legal organization, not in the business of software development.

After spending years using outsourced solutions, they realized that they only way they could get the quality applications they needed to meet their ever-growing needs would be to develop solutions in-house. Now they have an entire team of software developers who can barely keep up with all of the requests coming in.

Favorite Quote(s)

"If it's a core business function -- do it yourself, no matter what...If you're a pharmaceutical company, write software for drug research, but don't write your own accounting package."

Suggestions?

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