Ashly Dhani
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- Location Harare, Zimbabwe
- Languages English, Shona, Chinese
- Focus Development & delivery
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What a head of development owes the team
Strategy, capacity, and standards are in the job description. The version that changes how a week is spent is shorter: a development lead owes the team a standard, a plan, cover, and a next step.
- August 26, 2026
- Ashly Dhani
The three questions I ask before I commit a delivery date
A delivery date is the most expensive sentence a project manager says. Before I commit one, it has to survive three questions about assumptions, dependencies, and what gets cut first.
- August 12, 2026
- Ashly Dhani
What a monitoring and evaluation dashboard owes the people who read it
Most dashboards fail for reasons that have nothing to do with technology. Start from the decision being made, be honest about data latency, and treat exports and access rules as part of the design.
- July 27, 2026
- Ashly Dhani
Offline first is an architecture decision, not a feature you add later
Offline capability is not something you bolt onto a finished mobile app. It changes identifiers, timestamps, deletions, and conflict rules, and taking the decision late means rewriting the data layer.
- July 24, 2026
- Ashly Dhani
Responsive design is a budget decision before it is a layout decision
Responsive work is usually sold as a layout exercise. The expensive part is deciding what a small screen is allowed to drop, and that is a business call rather than a CSS one.
- January 9, 2024
- Ashly Dhani
Design trends worth adopting, and the ones that age badly
Some design choices still look right in five years and some date within a season. A practical way to tell which is which before committing a brand to it.
- September 24, 2020
- Ashly Dhani
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