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Are you compromised?

It’s important to acknowledge that a core competency for hackers is hiding their tracks and maintaining dormancy for long periods of time after they’ve infiltrated an environment.…

AKF

· 2 min read

Open Source Software as a malware “on ramp”

Open Source Software (OSS) is an efficient means to building out solutions rapidly with high quality. You utilize crowdsourced design, development and validation to conveniently…

AKF

· 2 min read

SaaS Risk and Value Shift

The movement to SaaS specifically, and more broadly “Anything” (X) as a Service (XaaS) is driven by demand side (buyer) forces. In early cases within any industry, the buyer…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

The Phases of SaaS Grief

Over a decade of helping on-premises and licensed software companies through the transition to “Something as a Service” – whether that be Software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS),…

Marty Abbott

· 10 min read

Factors Driving SaaS and XaaS Adoption

XaaS (e.g. SaaS, PaaS) mass-market adoption is largely a demand-side “pull” of a product through the Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC). One of the best books describing…

Marty Abbott

· 6 min read

Agile and Dealing With The Cone of Uncertainty

The Leap of FaithWhen we embark on building SaaS product that will delight customers we are taking a leap of faith. We often don’t even know whether or not the outcomes targeted…

Dave Berardi

· 5 min read

SaaS Principles Part 2

Following our first article on the conflict between licensed products and SaaS solutions, we now present a necessary (but not always sufficient) list of SaaS operating principles.…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

The Many Unfortunate Meanings of Cloud

Enough is enough already – stop using the term “Cloud”. Somewhere during the last 20 years, the term “Cloud” started to mean to product offerings what Sriracha and Tabasco…

Marty Abbott

· 3 min read

The Top Five Most Common Agile PDLC Failures

Agile Software Development is a widely adopted methodology, and for good reason. When implemented properly, Agile can bring tremendous efficiencies, enabling your teams to move…

Dave Swenson

· 4 min read

SaaS Migration Challenges

More and more companies are waking up from the 20th century, realizing that their on-premises, packaged, waterfall paradigms no longer play in today’s SaaS, agile world. SaaS…

Dave Swenson

· 6 min read

Technical Due Diligence Best Practices

Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that companies evaluate…

Marty Abbott

· 5 min read

Definition of MVP

We often use the term minimum viable product or MVP but do we all agree on what it means? In the Scrum spirt of Definition of Done, I believe the Definition of MVP is worth stating…

AKF

· 1 min read

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