Full Stack Engineers vs. Full Stack (Cross-Functional) Teams

Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

Explanation of technical debt for CIOs of non-software product companies Digital product companies, primarily those companies that were built with the internet as the primary customer…

Phillip Seawright

March 31, 2020 · 3 min read

Product

Key skills for adaptive product teams

There is growing recognition for the need for adaptive product teams.. The process of delivering software may be very similar across almost all companies but there is a need for…

Tanya Cordrey

March 31, 2020 · 6 min read

Process Product

Scalability Rules - How to Simplify Scope, Design, and Implementation (Rule 3)

Do you ever feel like the work you are involved in is too chaotic or that products take too long to deliver? We have an answer. Today we will share Rule 3 of the Scalability Rules…

AKF

March 25, 2020 · 9 min read

Architecture

Architectural Principles: Scale Out, Not Up

In the sci-fi cult classic "The Fifth Element" starring Bruce Willis, there is a scene of man vs. unknown power where the military fires all they've got at an advancing alien life…

Pete Ferguson

March 25, 2020 · 3 min read

Microservices

Microservice Aggregator Pattern

Aggregator Pattern OverviewThe aggregator design pattern is a service that receives a request, subsequently makes requests of multiple services, combines the results and responds…

Marty Abbott

March 23, 2020 · 4 min read

Architecture

Working from Home, Is your Business COVID-19 Ready?

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is forcing people to work from home. Suddenly many organizations have to support an entirely remote workforce. The "social distancing" mandates have…

AKF

March 22, 2020 · 3 min read

Process Product

The DID Process - Scale Design Principles (Rule 2)

One of the questions we are often asked is when do I scale my company? When setting out to build a product, there is a lot to learn and figure out. Scale is one of those questions.…

AKF

March 20, 2020 · 10 min read

Process

Why Code Reviews Save Money and Time

Software engineers have likely heard of the studies that show how the cost of a defect increases by an order of magnitude for each successive phase. If you haven’t heard of…

Pete Ferguson

March 13, 2020 · 3 min read

Microservices

Ambassador Pattern: Description and Advice on Usage

Relationship to Sidecar and Sidecar OverviewThe Ambassador pattern is a special case of the sidecar pattern. As such, it maintains most of the description, many of the benefits…

Marty Abbott

March 12, 2020 · 6 min read

Product

Adaptive product teams: Beware the one-size- fits-all approach

Image Credit: AzoraArashi Flckr‘As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg’, – Clay…

Tanya Cordrey

March 7, 2020 · 5 min read

Product

Faster Time to Market – How to Avoid Overengineering (Rule 1)

Have you ever wondered how to achieve a faster time to market (TTM) for your product teams? Do you have a straightforward task, a personal project, or a team project, that is taking…

AKF

March 5, 2020 · 9 min read

Leadership Organization

Four Types of Organization Cancer

I’m a cancer survivor. Not the kind of biological cancer that took both my grandfathers and has affected many of my friends and family, but the evil and malicious cancer that…

Pete Ferguson

March 5, 2020 · 7 min read

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Technical Debt for CIOs Leads to Organizational Debt for CEOs

Key skills for adaptive product teams

Scalability Rules - How to Simplify Scope, Design, and Implementation (Rule 3)

Architectural Principles: Scale Out, Not Up

Microservice Aggregator Pattern

Working from Home, Is your Business COVID-19 Ready?

The DID Process - Scale Design Principles (Rule 2)

Why Code Reviews Save Money and Time

Ambassador Pattern: Description and Advice on Usage

Adaptive product teams: Beware the one-size- fits-all approach

Faster Time to Market – How to Avoid Overengineering (Rule 1)

Four Types of Organization Cancer

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