Agile
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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 2
In Part 1, I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile…
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Designing an Organization for a Product Approach, Part 1
If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. You might even call them/use them as…
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A Partner for Your Custom Software Solution – pt 1: Identify the Type of Project
Before starting the search for the right partner for your custom project, you should identify the type of project as clearly…
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A Partner for Your Custom Software Solution – pt 0: an Overview
When you’ve decided that your business needs a custom software solution, the choice of partner will have an enormous impact…
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Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence
One of the big problems I see with a product orientation (as opposed to a project) is in preparing for…
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Project Work vs Product Work
We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is…
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How should we organize our teams?
Q1: How should we organize our teams? My team is owner of different trading platforms and the core services around…
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The Importance of Cadence
Thousands of years ago, military thinkers realized that the only way they could effectively move thousands of troops in the…
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Release or be damned
Back when I was still paid to code I had a simple question I posed to troubled development efforts: “Why…
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