<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Dezigndia Insights</title><description>Notes from building enterprise systems. Written by the people who built them.</description><link>https://dezigndia.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Fixed price vs time and materials: which software contract fits</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/fixed-price-vs-time-and-materials/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/fixed-price-vs-time-and-materials/</guid><description>The choice between a fixed-price and a time and materials contract is really a choice about who carries estimating risk. How to tell which fits, how fixed scope is kept intact, and the hybrid we propose most often.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Delivery Lead, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>In-house vs outsourced software development: a decision framework</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/in-house-vs-outsourced-software-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/in-house-vs-outsourced-software-development/</guid><description>Whether to build an engineering team or buy one is rarely all or nothing. A framework for deciding, the hybrid models that sit between the two, the costs neither side mentions, and the cases where you should keep the work in-house.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of Engineering, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Offshore vs nearshore software development for US and EU buyers</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/offshore-vs-nearshore-software-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/offshore-vs-nearshore-software-development/</guid><description>India, Eastern Europe or Latin America. A practical comparison of time-zone overlap, communication, talent depth, data protection, IP and attrition, written by an offshore firm that will tell you when nearshore is the better call.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of Delivery, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>What drives MVP development cost, and what to cut first</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/what-drives-mvp-development-cost/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/what-drives-mvp-development-cost/</guid><description>Screens are not what makes an MVP expensive. Integrations, permissions, compliance, platforms, design depth and data migration are. How each one moves effort, what to cut, and how to get an estimate you can plan against.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of Product Engineering, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>An AI-assisted MVP in four to six weeks: what agents draft, and what we never cut</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/ai-assisted-mvp-in-eight-weeks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/ai-assisted-mvp-in-eight-weeks/</guid><description>The week-by-week breakdown behind an AI-assisted first release in four to six weeks: what coding agents draft, what engineers review and decide, what still waits on users and sponsors, and the things that stay in scope no matter what.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Delivery Lead, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Where AI is working in enterprise operations, and where it is not</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/ai-landscape-enterprise-operations-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/ai-landscape-enterprise-operations-2026/</guid><description>The AI in production inside operations teams is mostly reading things. The AI that was asked to decide has mostly been switched off. Where the line sits today, the governance patterns that hold, and how to pick a first workflow.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Principal Consultant, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Modernizing an ERP without freezing the business</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/modernizing-erp-without-freezing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/modernizing-erp-without-freezing/</guid><description>Slicing a replacement so every phase ships something usable and reversible. The order we choose slices in, how shadow mode works, and the parts we still find hard.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Solution Architect, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>The blended delivery team, and what breaks when you build one</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/future-of-work-contingent-talent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/future-of-work-contingent-talent/</guid><description>Enterprise delivery teams are now permanently part permanent, part contingent. The machinery for running them was built for a few contractors. What fails first, and what a governed workforce platform has to do about it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Delivery Lead, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>One definition per metric, and how to actually get there</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/one-definition-per-metric/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/one-definition-per-metric/</guid><description>KPI governance is an organizational problem wearing a technical costume. What worked, what did not, and why the hard part is getting three teams into one room.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of Data Engineering, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Technology and SaaS in 2026: retention, KPIs and AI features</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-technology-saas-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-technology-saas-2026/</guid><description>More user data than any other kind of business, and customers still leave unseen. What is changing in retention analytics, metric governance, the AI roadmap line, and the way engineering teams are staffed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of Data Engineering, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>What breaks when you put an LLM in an approval workflow</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/llm-in-approval-workflow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/llm-in-approval-workflow/</guid><description>Audit trails, determinism, and the failure modes nobody demos. Notes from putting a language model inside a regulated process without losing the ability to explain what it did.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Head of AI Engineering, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Designing role-based access for a two thousand partner network</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/rbac-two-thousand-partner-network/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/rbac-two-thousand-partner-network/</guid><description>Why most RBAC models break at the second tier of hierarchy, and how we ended up treating roles, scopes and delegation as three separate things.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Principal Engineer, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Financial services in 2026: compliance that lives in the workflow</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-financial-services-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-financial-services-2026/</guid><description>The customer-facing side has been modernized. The employee-facing side runs on an aging ERP, email and a person reading a form against a policy. What is changing, and why the AI conversation in this sector is really a governance conversation.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Solution Architect, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>How we cut KYC verification from days to hours with a document agent</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/kyc-verification-document-agent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/kyc-verification-document-agent/</guid><description>Confidence thresholds, exception routing, and what still needs a human. What we learned building document verification for a partner network of thousands.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Solution Architect, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Construction in 2026: the supplier network problem</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-construction-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-construction-2026/</guid><description>Thousands of vendors, a compliance record per project, and margins priced eighteen months ago. Where centralized vendor management and procurement governance are taking hold, and where automation stops.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Delivery Lead, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Retail and FMCG in 2026: channels multiply, margins do not</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-retail-fmcg-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-retail-fmcg-2026/</guid><description>Six channels, four versions of the same customer, and a reseller network paid from a spreadsheet. What is changing in commerce platforms, affiliate structures and personalization, judged by whether the customer came back.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Product Consultant, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Pharma and healthcare in 2026: channels, approvals and patients</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-pharma-healthcare-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-pharma-healthcare-2026/</guid><description>The important interactions happen at the pharmacy counter and the front desk, and the systems sit at head office. What is changing in pharmacy engagement, regulated approvals and cross-channel scheduling, and where AI fits.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Principal Consultant, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item><item><title>Energy and utilities in 2026: the network is the system</title><link>https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-energy-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://dezigndia.com/insights/landscape-energy-2026/</guid><description>Energy companies run on dealers, distributors and contractors they do not employ. The operational data is excellent and the commercial systems are email. Where that gap is closing, and where it is not.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><author>Solution Architect, Dezigndia Technologies</author></item></channel></rss>