A Digital Transformation Strategy: How to Beat the Legacy Pull
Contrary to popular belief, at the beginning of the second industrial revolution, electricity was largely seen as a dud. Though Thomas Edison first patented his famed light bulb in 1879, two decades later, the invention…
Who Should Pay for Bug Fixes?
In a perfect world, every application would sit comfortably atop wholly stable, never-changing systems.Unfortunately for utopians everywhere, however, the foundation upon which modern software is built is much more akin to a ticking time bomb.While…
Six Ways to Help Your Teams Meet Deadlines
While they may well be a leading cause of stress in the workplace, deadlines are something of a necessary evil, as without them — let the anarchists amongst us disagree — human productivity would all…
When to Build vs Buy Software. Does It Matter?
Apples and oranges, chalk and cheese. Comparing bespoke software to canned solutions is a lot harder than one would initially assume — and yet companies across the world face this challenge every day. The trouble lies in…
What Great Tech Leads Are Made Of
For developers interested in moving up the ranks, the idea of becoming a tech lead may be as appealing as it is intimidating.After all, when leading development teams, only a small proportion of the skills…
Diagnosing and Dealing with Problems of Productivity
So your software development team has had a bit more than a hiccup. Productivity has stalled and frustration is increasing by the day. You know it's time to do something about it, but what exactly…
How to Get Agile Teams to Plan for Themselves
As many parents will undoubtedly know, one of the hardest things to achieve for our kids is that elusive balance between freedom and boundaries. We do not tell our children that they mustn't play at…
The Disadvantages of Offshore Outsourcing
If you've ever considered outsourcing software development to another country, you probably wondered how practical a move this would be. After all, it is not too difficult to conceive of a plethora of cases in…
So Your Application Has Finally Been Delivered. What Comes Next?
For first-time entrepreneurs, the logistics of adequately maintaining applications can often be surprising and even a little confusing. After all, when a train set is first taken out of its box, it simply works. Shouldn't…
Meltdown and Spectre: How Everyone Is Affected
Although it may have been dubbed the "worst bug ever," for many years, the mechanism behind security vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre was widely regarded as a cornerstone of modern processor design.It was only at the…