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WTF are your employees doing all day? Are you really ready to move to Agile?

To change they way they work tomorrow, you need to know their work patterns today. White collar employees spend the majority of time in front of their computer. It is not easy to know what types of work they are doing today. We have identified 5 work patterns that most teams and organizations need to master. Agile Products is one of the 5 work patterns. Projects are another one. We recommend mastery of the 5 at an organization level. We do not recommend mastery of all 5 at an individual or team level.

Phillip Seawright

· 5 min read

What is not tech debt

Recently we updated our definition of tech debt tech debt. As a follow on to that article, this post goes into areas that are not tech debt, but often confused or confounded with…

Heather Abbott

· 6 min read

What is Tech Debt and How to Think About It

Technical debt is a frequent topic we cover with clients. Technology products are never ‘done'. The art of keeping a platform optimized for product outcomes is a journey.…

Eric Arrington

· 5 min read

How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence

How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence

Greg Fennewald

· 5 min read

Whole Product Concept for SaaS

Whole Product Concept for SaaS - Updated for SaaS Shift

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

Leadership Anti-Patterns

Article discusses three anti-patterns of leadership to avoid including the Rockstar, The Third Person Leader and The Big Brain

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 3

This is the final post in a three-part series presenting leadership principles for product and tech executives. This week’s entry covers principles of team dynamics and behaviors…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

A Microservices Saga Choreography Example

In a recent blog post we wrote about the Saga Pattern. Saga attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

CEO Guide to Product

CEO guide to product including product management, product teams and discovery

Tanya Cordrey

· 8 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders - Part 2

Principles of team construction and workflow for product and technology executives. Part 2 in a 3 part series.

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Leadership Principles for Engineering and Product Leaders

Leadership principles for engineering and product leaders

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Claim-Check Pattern: When To Split a Large Message Into a Claim-Check and a Payload

The Claim-Check approach is an architectural pattern for creating additional capacity for a message bus by persisting the entire payload into an external datastore and only sending…

Dave Berardi

· 3 min read

Microservices Saga Pattern

Saga OverviewThe saga pattern attempts to coordinate or manage the notion of transactional consistency across multiple services when a transaction is comprised of several distributed…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Event Sourcing Microservices Pattern

Description of the event sourcing microservices pattern including advice on how and when to implement.

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read
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