Starting out as a new company in October 2009, it was always the plan to be more than a 1-man company. ImplicitDesign was never an exercise in being a consultant, it was…

Continuing on the theme of company principles (see one), a second decision we made early on was that we would always break work down into very granular chunks. Initially this meant less…

We have a third principle (read also one and two), and this one is perhaps the most important from a culture point of view: avoid all avoidable admin. Everyone hates admin, developers…

A dev plan is not a spec. Most proposals and quotes that clients sign-off on are specs, but they should be signing off on dev plans. The difference is small but crucial:…

The development process can often be opaque, and developers sometimes find it easy to hide behind complex requirements that take an indeterminate time to finish. This is a bad thing. The reason…

Development companies are notorious for working overtime. Of course, they’re not the only ones, but the image of a pile of pizza boxes in a corner of the office is familiar to…