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Microservice Architecture Principles

When product and engineering teams are small and tight knit, they often share an unspoken and undocumented set of principles that guide their development. The principles arise…

Marty Abbott

· 11 min read

Security Anti-Pattern: Checklist Compliance

This article is the first in a multi-part series on information security anti-patterns. I recall well when I first started out in physical security and the concept of PCI compliance…

Pete Ferguson

· 4 min read

Leadership Anti-Pattern: Victim Mentality

Please consider the context, disparity in power, and in all but one case (as of the writing of this post) the outcomes associated with the following confrontations:Zelensky v.…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

1-10-100 rule in quality software development

What is the 1-10-100 Rule in Software Development Quality Control? The 1-10-100 rule simply refers to the cost to fix defects (aka bugs) by phase/step in a software development…

Pete Ferguson

· 2 min read

The Technology Adoption Life Cycle and Sticky Notes [The Formula to Quickly Reach The Right Market]

In one of the worst quotes in American history (followed closely by every popular quote from a Marvel character), Ralph Waldo Emerson said:Build a better mousetrap, and the world…

Eric Arrington

· 9 min read

CEO Guide to Quality Engineering

What is Quality Engineering? Quality Engineering encompasses all the product quality improving practices that you incorporate into your end-to-end (E2E) product delivery process.…

Heather Abbott

· 5 min read

STEM Education - A Growing National Security Crisis

Summary The US is largely seen as the innovation center of the world, at least when it comes to consumer, military, pharmaceutical and business products successfully brought to…

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

Team Dynamics - Affective and Cognitive Conflict

I’m guessing that it wouldn’t surprise you to find out that the worst performing teams are in constant conflict. But what if I were to tell you that the highest performing…

Marty Abbott

· 7 min read

CEO Guide To Breaking Up The Monolith

WHAT IS A MONOLITH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND ITS IMPACT TO THE BUSINESS?You may have noticed your engineering teams are too slow or your CTO has been complaining about…

Dave Berardi

· 6 min read

Why You Need an Architecture Team

One of the most concerning trends we’ve seen lately is the nearly complete elimination of architecture teams. We’ve unfortunately seen several clients go down the path of eliminating…

Marty Abbott

· 8 min read

CEO Guide to Innovation

What is Innovation?To better understand innovation, we identify 2 variations of innovations:Disruptive Innovation or Big (I) Innovation - when new products or services create new…

Phillip Seawright

· 8 min read

Technical Product Owners Are a Symptom of An Agile Failure

Over the last decade or so, I have seen a reemergence of the dreaded “business analyst”. These folks were the wait-staff of the waterfall lifecycle, taking requests from the…

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

Visit 100 websites and 100 companies and you’ll find neither a consistent definition nor a consistent implementation for Product Operations. As Marty Cagan points out in his…

Marty Abbott

· 4 min read

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