Project recovery
How do you rescue an unfinished software project?
Preserve the current state, establish evidence, and define the smallest responsible recovery release.
Madeactual insights
Practical answers for software that has to work.
Decision guides for owners and operators evaluating custom software, integration, automation, recovery, and responsible technical delivery.
Build or buy
Custom software vs off-the-shelf
Choose based on differentiation, operational fit, control, integration, and total cost.
Systems integration
Systems integration assessment checklist
Define ownership, data contracts, timing, failures, security, monitoring, and reconciliation.
Operational software
When should a business replace a spreadsheet?
Replace operational risk—not spreadsheets merely because they are spreadsheets.
Project planning
How to scope a custom software project
Define a valuable, testable first outcome with explicit boundaries and acceptance evidence.
Systems integration
The expensive part is the handoff
Why otherwise functional systems create costly operational failures between them.
Evidence behind the guidance
See Madeactual’s internal build notes and case studies for concrete implementation constraints, controls, and verification.