Overgrowth in your product garden? Send in the goats
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/overgrowth-in-your-product-garden-send-in-the-goats. Building non-core software in-house? A VP of Product on the hidden costs of build vs buy, from accessibility to scale and AI. Check more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined. You can also check exclusive content about #edtech, #software-development, #assessment, #build-vs-buy, #infrastructure, #hackernoon-top-story, #good-company, #overgrowth-in-product, and more. This story was written by: @learnosity. Learn more about this writer by checking @learnosity's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. A VP of Product on goats, gardens and build vs buy. Teams build non-core software in-house for good reasons: control, ambition, and integration that looks heavy. But maintenance grows back faster than you can clear it, from accessibility rules to reliability at scale, and AI doesn’t change that. Before you build, ask what it would realistically take to build it and to maintain it at scale.