Most software companies have to make decisions on whether to build a custom software or buy it from a vendor. In the last year I read many good articles on the web that helped shape my thoughts on how to approach these discussions. This article lists of questions that I have started to use to understand and make these decisions.

Sometimes you can’t make an informed decision because you don’t even know what should factor in to that decision. Shekhar Gulati is here to help provide those factors and he even produced this handy decision matrix for you.

Shekhar Gulati does a quick retro after his first year as CTO. Their lessons include:

• Schedule time for yourself
• Getting things done without doing them
• You will not have all the answers
• Pick your battle wisely

And a few more.