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Assessing Agile Product Development Processes - Part 3

This is the third part of a multi-part series on how to perform evaluations of Agile Development Processes. The first article in this series evaluated the…

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Assessing Agile Product Development Processes Part 2

This is the second part of a multi-part series on how to perform evaluations of Agile Development Processes. The first article in this series evaluated the…

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Assessing Agile Product Development Processes - Part 1

While it’s common these days for companies to claim that they follow an Agile development lifecycle, it is uncommon for companies to measure and evaluate the…

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Sales Excuse Driven Product Development

In today's fast-paced software development environment, the push for more features defines the roadmap of many products. At the core of this drive are often…

Architecture

Communicate Asynchronously As Much As Possible

Organizations aim to achieve the best technology designs in their systems as well as provide the most optimal customer experiences. Sometimes however,…

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CEO Guide to DevOps

What is DevOps?

Architecture

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…

Architecture

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…

Process

Don't Rely on QA to Find Mistakes

A few years back, my husband and I moved from California to Florida to start new jobs. With our children in tow, we said goodbye to the mountains and dry heat…

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CEO Guide to Agile

What is Agile? Agile has different meanings to different audiences. For the majority of customers, Agile applies to the development of digital products or…