Specs turned into production software.

Every project on this page began the same way: a specification agreed, priced and dated before a line of code was written. What follows is the part that usually goes unrecorded — the decisions taken under real time pressure, the scope that moved and the scope that deliberately did not, and what the software was doing once it was in front of the people it was built for.

They are written to be useful rather than flattering. Where a build met something nobody had planned for, that is in the write-up too — because the question worth judging us on is not whether projects run smoothly. It is what happens when they do not, and whether the number quoted at the start is still the number at the end.