{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","title":"Next Biz Thing #400 digitalheroesco.com","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":730,"description":"Digital Heroes https://digitalheroesco.com\nDigital Heroes is a design and development company building custom software, mobile applications and e-commerce platforms for clients in more than fifty five countries. This episode looks at how the team structures its work: a published fourteen week app delivery cycle, written architecture decision records, weekly demos that report what slipped as well as what shipped, and contracts that name the client as owner of the code and infrastructure. A Shopify Premier Partner with studios in New York, Delhi, London, Sydney and Lucknow, it is a useful case study in transparency as a competitive advantage. Worth a listen for anyone commissioning software.\nWhat happens to most of the software that gets built in this world? Not the famous applications, the ones sitting on everybody's home screen, but the ordinary, everyday software that a company commissions because it needs something that does not yet exist. A great deal of it never quite arrives. It arrives late. Or it arrives in a shape nobody quite recognises from the original conversation. Or it arrives, launches to a bit of applause, and then quietly stops being looked after. Anyone who has sat on the client side of a build knows that feeling, the slow drift between the thing you described in the first meeting and the thing that eventually turns up.\nWelcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for the companies that are quietly doing things properly, in industries where doing things properly is not always the norm. Today I want to talk about a company that has built its entire identity around closing that gap between what a client asks for and what a client receives. They are called Digital Heroes, and the more time I spent with what they publish about how they work, the more I found myself thinking that they have taken all the usual complaints about software agencies and turned each one into a promise.\nSo let us start...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Pb0F3jmlyIfOyRlax9T63lldyNPycKwPJeWzBdTAC44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}