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5 Requirements to Successfully Launch a Custom Software Solution

September 15, 2022

Best Practice

When launching a custom software solution in your organization you may find the common aversion to ...

What To Know Before You Outsource Development

Best Practice

A decade or so ago, an article from Forbes declared the end of IT outsourcing was upon us and for a ...

9 Categories of the Airship Tech Stack Rubric

Best Practice

There is one certainty in writing software and that is “there are 100 ways to solve the same ...

Airfoil - A React Native Development Tool

November 8, 2021

Code

React Native has been a framework of choice for us for over 4 years now and we’ve delivered some ...

Augmented Reality - The Tech Behind GolfAR

October 20, 2021

Tech

In the first Augmented Reality GolfAR blog post (read it here), I discussed why augmented reality ...

Why Augmented Reality Now?

September 29, 2021

Products

Augmented Reality uses the real world and enhances it across multiple sensory modalities. Augmented ...

Transparency Culture: It’s in the Leader’s Hands

Leadership

Airship is a small company (currently 40 crew members strong!). However, no matter the size of your ...

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Start with: What problem are you trying to solve?

One of the activities we work through revolves around refining your problem statement. A problem statement is the key business problem that needs to be solved. In software development, it states “what has to be done” for a project to succeed. It does not say, “how it has to be done.”

We use the 5W’s + 1 H format as well as the SMART Framework when establishing a problem statement. In fact, you can draft your own problem statement by using our free download. This download will get you thinking through some of the questions and answers prior to starting your project.