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Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure

Technical Product Owners are a sign of Agile failure. Don't fall into the trap of creating such a role in your organization.

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

CEO Guide to Managing Tech Debt and Overall Platform Health

What is Technical Debt and how does it relate to overall application health? Technical debt or more commonly “tech debt” is an analogy to financial debt that was credited to…

Heather Abbott

· 10 min read

What is Product Operations and How to Implement Product Operations

What is Product Operations and How to Implement Product Operations Successfully

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

CEO Guide to Managing a CTO

Guidance on how to have discussions with and manage your CTO

Marty Abbott

· 12 min read

CEO Guide to Hiring an Interim CTO

What is an Interim CTO?An interim CTO leads an engineering team when there is a senior engineering leadership gap (such as a departure of the prior CTO) that the company plans…

Heather Abbott

· 7 min read

CEO Guide to Microservices

What are Microservices?Applications are commonly grouped under the umbrellas of monolithic or distributed. In simple terms a monolithic application refers to a single code base…

Heather Abbott

· 8 min read

CEO Guide to the Public Cloud

Public Cloud Guide and Description for non-technical executives

Marty Abbott

· 14 min read

The Platform Mindset

Mindset and activities necessary to be successful in platform development

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

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.When asked why, we hear things like: "It doesn't…

Curtis Nielsen

· 5 min read

Defining Platform

Platforms for software have multiple meanings for different departments. A holistic definition is needed with and across departments. Engineers need to think of components directly used by customers. Product owners should think of components that can be bundled for different markets. Sales and marketing should think of target markets and personas for tailored solutions. CFOs and investors should think of the value of an entire ecosystem.

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

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 work is planned proactively…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read

The Danger Zone with Large Groups

Large teams lead to poor morale. They also lead to wasted time. Dunbar numbers and graph theory explain the overhead and risks of large teams. Special forces tend to win over large armies. Small autonomous fighting units also tend to fend off larger forces. Apply these lessons for your organization to operate small while appearing large.

Phillip Seawright

· 6 min read

Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery

Single Page Applications (SPA) when implemented in concert with a stateless and fault tolerant server application architecture can self-heal issues which arise due to application, server and even regional outages. See how to implement this capability in your application.

David Blatherwick

· 5 min read

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 browser is now an integral part to be considered when building applications. In this article, we will discuss the evolution in the delivery of applications to users with a focus on user experience, reliability, and the value of Single Page Applications (SPA).

David Blatherwick

· 12 min read
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