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The case for strong leadership in agile teams

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The key to scaling a software engineering organization is stable teams. A while ago I wrote about the need to focus on stable, autonomous teams. Teams with members that trust each other and thereby become more than the sum of their parts. That is, in the end, the ultimate dream of a software development manager: to create cross-functional, self-organizing, high-performance teams. Teams self-organize around a compelling mission and have a.

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Are Your Partner Channels Still Relevant? Invitation To Forrester’s B2B Forum

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The shift in technology buying trends favoring line-of-business (LOB) leaders is having a significant impact on traditional partnering, reselling, and value-added services. With business buyers now leading or influencing 65% of new technology projects, partner business models that we built around product sales are struggling to stay relevant. Business leaders do not have the patience […]

The Data Digest: Instagram And Snapchat Have Room For More Ads, According To Forrester Data’s US Youth Survey

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While Facebook again signaled on its latest earnings call that the ad load in its core News Feed is approaching an upper limit, other social networks have more room to increase their ad load. According to a Forrester Data Consumer Technographics® survey fielded in January 2017 to 4,502 US youth between the ages of 12 […]

Conducting an Architectural Risk Assessment — Step 1

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An architectural risk assessment is not a penetration test or merely a vulnerability scan. It is an engineering process with the aim of understanding, defining, and defending all the functional output from customers, line workers, corporate staff, and client-server interactions. Architectural risk assessments include ethical hacking, source code review, and the formation of a new Read more

Conducting an Architectural Risk Assessment — Step 1

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An architectural risk assessment is not a penetration test or merely a vulnerability scan. It is an engineering process with the aim of understanding, defining, and defending all the functional output from customers, line workers, corporate staff, and client-server interactions. Architectural risk assessments include ethical hacking, source code review, and the formation of a new Read more

Accenture Joins The Apple Enterprise Train

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To be successful in the enterprise, Apple needs to find partners that can build complex, end-to-end mobile solutions. In 2014, IBM was the first tech giant to do a deal to bring Apple’s development and design expertise into its consulting practice. Deloitte followed suit in 2016. Accenture Digital has now joined these consultancies as a […]

Home(coming) – a project in the making

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This is a collection of the sources I have come across to date on this topic plus some of my own reflections. It’s a living document in the sense that I will continue to add to it. It started life in a private space for people from my master’s course at Ashridge and contains some […]

The Fractured Banking Model: Embrace Change Or Fight It?

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In the latest episode of Forrester’s What It Means podcast, Senior Analyst Peter Wannemacher discusses how the traditional banking model is fracturing – making way for an open model that will reward those banks that adapt to customer expectations and behaviors unlike those that helped shape the current model; a fintech market that is creating a low level […]