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Architecture

The Platform Mindset

This is the second part in a multi-part series on platform engineering, and platform product management.

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Marty Abbott · · 9 min read
Architecture

Defining Platform

As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build…

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Marty Abbott · · 6 min read
Process

Why story points and velocity really matter

Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint.

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Curtis Nielsen · · 6 min read
Technical Debt

It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!

Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of…

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Heather Abbott · · 7 min read
Organization

The Danger Zone with Large Groups

How many people does it take to make a decision at your company? How many people does it take to launch a new feature for your product? To modernize and/or…

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Phillip Seawright · · 7 min read
Architecture

Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery

In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the…

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David Blatherwick · · 6 min read
Architecture

Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale

Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the…

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David Blatherwick · · 14 min read