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Why story points and velocity really matter
Recently, we have come across many teams that are not using story points and team velocity to track progress through the sprint. When asked why, we hear…
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Defining Platform
As with the word “Cloud”, the word “Platform” is an over-used and far too often underdefined word within our industry (comprised of companies that build…
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It's Good Housekeeping, not Tech Debt!
Do software initiatives such maintenance, upgrades and refactoring fall under the umbrella of Technical Debt? Perhaps a trick question, but when this body of…
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The Danger Zone with Large Groups
How many people does it take to make a decision at your company? How many people does it take to launch a new feature for your product? To modernize and/or…
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Single Page Applications - Fault Isolation and Recovery
In my previous article, Browser Scalability, I addressed the ability of a stateful browser using a stateless strategy to scale web applications and add the…
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Single Page Applications – A New Dimension of Scale
Browsers have not been considered as a compute resource to aid in scalability and fault tolerance. Through the use of modern Java Script frameworks, the…
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WTF are your employees doing all day? Are you really ready to move to Agile?
How many hours are a day are your employees in front of a computer? On their smart phone doing work? Are they working on planned work or unplanned work?…
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What is not tech debt
Recently we updated our definition of tech debt tech debt. As a follow on to that article, this post goes into areas that are not tech debt, but often confused…
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What is Tech Debt and How to Think About It
Technical debt is a frequent topic we cover with clients. Technology products are never ‘done'. The art of keeping a platform optimized for product outcomes is…
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How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence
How to Prepare for a Technical Due Diligence Conducting technical due diligence engagements on technology-enabled product companies is a key service AKF…
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Whole Product Concept for SaaS
What makes products successful? There are many aspects that contribute to the success of a product over time. We can trace back research to several prominent…
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Leadership Anti-Patterns
The world of software development is all abuzz with the notion of patterns and anti-patterns. Patterns are something we endeavor to follow and propagate as a…