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Accelerating ROI impact from application portfolio rationalization
Authored by Steve PattiOne of the hot topics in application portfolio strategy over the past few years has been portfolio rationalization. That is, inventorying and evaluating all of the applications an enterprise is running to look for ways to reduce redundancy,...
Delivering MEAN-Stack Applications with Grunt, Jenkins & AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Part 2
Authored by Eric HuangIn my previous blog post I gave a high-level overview of our MEAN-stack delivery solution. This time I will walk through actual environment preparation and the upcoming Part 3 blog post will focus on how to integrate with Jenkins and make every...
Delivering MEAN-stack applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk Pt 1
Authored by Eric HuangRecently I have been involved in a project that utilizes MEAN stack and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. After some trials and errors we managed to setup a simple deployment pipeline that has proven to work pretty well. Surprisingly, there isn’t a lot of...
Make your goals public (the right way)
Authored by Vishal Bardoloi I've heard this self-help mantra so many times, so many forms, that until recently I had accepted it as truth: If you want to achieve them, make your goals public. Until recently, when I saw this Ted Talk by Derek Sivers. The thesis:...
Thoughts on Short-Lived Branches
Corey Haines (@coreyhaines) wrote an interesting article on something he’s calling short-lived branches. The short version is: Corey observed that we sometimes think of better ways to code something after we’ve started, but won’t start over (in economics this is...
Why scrum isn’t dead…and shouldn’t be
Authored by Shawn PetersonI have read numerous blog posts over the past year around the topic of why scrum is outdated, and no longer a valuable option for Agile teams. I fully understand how scrum can go wrong - I also have been in the endless unproductive planning...
Turning ‘Shadow IT’ from a Threat Into an Opportunity
According to a 2013 Frost & Sullivan study, more than 80% of line-of-business employees admit to practicing “shadow IT”: using SaaS applications without the knowledge or blessing of their IT groups.[1] It’s a practice that presents obvious security, data...
Hate meeting minutes? Here’s why you should love them
Aurhored by Melissa Tullues I hate meeting minutes. You know – those notes that you scribble down during the meeting, trying to make sure that you capture the key points while also participating in the discussion, and then squeezing in time afterward to package them...
5 Tips for UX Designers Working with Agile Development Teams
I had no idea what I was doing in the beginning. I started by just going with the flow; letting the "Agile experts" of the team take the lead. I struggled with meeting client expectations and giving the developers what they needed, when they needed it.Four years...
You Can Automate More Business Processes Than You Think
There’s never been a greater need for business agility than there is right now. Automation makes businesses more agile. Yet, some company leaders perceive that they are approaching the limit of their business process automation (BPA) possibilities because the vast...