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Starting with 'Why' in Software Development and Product Management: A Strategy for Success

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, innovation and agility are crucial. Companies are constantly racing to release software products that meet market demands, solve real…

Pete Ferguson

September 13, 2024 · 4 min read

Architecture SaaS Process

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

We have recently updated our Availability Risk Model. Our previous article was a high level introduction to managing the risk of downtime. With the proliferation of…

Phillip Seawright

March 4, 2024 · 4 min read

Organization Process Product

Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences.

Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences. My role in my organization is facilitating the sprint planning estimation…

StephRene Forbes

December 11, 2023 · 4 min read

Leadership Process

Should I Capitalize or Expense R&D Software Development Costs?

Periodically, our clients ask us about the accounting treatment for the software development costs to develop the services they sell and the sites they use for commerce. In most…

Heather Abbott

November 8, 2023 · 7 min read

Architecture Organization Process

Technology Diagrams for Business Stakeholders

In our previous blogpost The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture, we identified Technology Diagrams as an important artifact during Transformations. A technology…

Phillip Seawright

August 24, 2023 · 9 min read

Organization Process Product

A Feature Matrix for Digital Product Teams

In our previous blogpost 'The Big Picture - Connecting Strategy to Architecture'", we identified a Feature Matrix as an important artifact during Transformations. A feature matrix…

Phillip Seawright

August 9, 2023 · 5 min read

Architecture Process

To ORM or Not to ORM: Do we keep it or replace it?

We have many clients that have chosen to use Object-Relational Mapping, or ORM, to abstract the database and subsequent writing of SQL statements from engineers. We advise our…

Bill Armelin

December 30, 2022 · 4 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process

Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure

Shoulder pads were in, Reagan just became president, and "Back to the Future" was released in the theaters. 1985 will be remembered for many reasons, but for the Coca-Cola company,…

Victoria Wisot

October 17, 2022 · 5 min read

Architecture Technical Diligence Process

The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology

One of the most common questions we get asked is, “What are the most common technical failures you see development and product teams make?” To answer this question, we analyzed…

Pete Ferguson

September 14, 2022 · 12 min read

Leadership Organization Process

Why Is My Development Team So Slow?

We are commonly asked questions similar to this: “My company has doubled the size of the development team over the last couple of years, yet the development team seems to get…

Marty Abbott

August 16, 2022 · 6 min read

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Starting with 'Why' in Software Development and Product Management: A Strategy for Success

Drivers of Downtime - a.k.a. Availability Risk

Product Managers, Product Owners and Program Managers – Ask the Right Questions and Know the Key Differences.

Should I Capitalize or Expense R&D Software Development Costs?

Technology Diagrams for Business Stakeholders

A Feature Matrix for Digital Product Teams

To ORM or Not to ORM: Do we keep it or replace it?

Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure

The Top 20 Mistakes in Technology

Why Is My Development Team So Slow?

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