What makes software actually stick
Most software projects deliver something. Far fewer deliver something people actually use six months later. The difference is not about features.
One of the things you learn quickly when you have built a lot of software is that delivery and adoption are two different things.
Most projects deliver something. A system is built, it goes live, there is a launch. Then, six months later, the team is back to doing it the old way. The system is technically still running. Nobody is using it.
This is not a technology problem. It is a design problem.
The adoption test
Before we start building anything, we ask one question: will the person who needs to use this every day actually want to?
Not can they use it. Not will they be told to use it. Will they want to.
The difference matters. Software that people want to use gets used. Software that people tolerate gets abandoned the first time something more urgent comes along.
What this means in practice
It means the system has to be faster than the alternative. If the old way took two minutes and the new system takes three, the new system will not survive.
It means the system has to be obvious. If someone needs training to understand what to do next, the system is not obvious enough.
It means the system has to handle the edge cases. The 80% case is easy. The 20% that doesn't fit the pattern is where software usually breaks down, and where trust is lost.
Why two weeks works
We deliver working software in two weeks. Not a prototype. Not a pilot. Something the team can use on Monday.
The reason this works is not that we are faster than other teams. It is that a two-week scope forces clarity. You cannot build everything in two weeks, so you build the one thing that matters most. And because it is scoped tightly, it works correctly within that scope.
That is what creates adoption. Not features. Reliability on the thing that was promised.
The measure that matters
We consider a project successful if it is still in active use six months after delivery. Every system we have built is. That is the number we care about.
Not the launch. Not the client sign-off. Whether people are still using it when the initial energy has worn off.
That is the measure that tells you whether you built something real.
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