57% of Failed Projects Share This One Problem: Communication Software projects rarely fail because teams don’t work hard enough. Most organizations invest significant time, talent, and budget into their technology initiatives. Teams are filled with capable professionals. Leadership is committed. Goals are clear—or at least they seem clear. Yet project failure rates remain stubbornly high. […]
When software projects begin to fall behind schedule, testing is often one of the first areas organizations are tempted to compress. Stakeholders are eager to launch. Budgets are under pressure. Teams feel confident in the quality of the solution because development and quality assurance activities have already been completed. As a result, User Acceptance Testing […]
Mel Tingey wears a lot of hats—Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at STG, architect of major enterprise solutions, and trusted advisor to senior executives across industries. But if you ask him how he sees himself, you won’t hear corporate jargon or rehearsed talking points. “I’m still a full-on nerd,” he says with a grin. “I’m […]
Mel Tingey wears a lot of hats—Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at STG, architect of major enterprise solutions, and trusted advisor to senior executives across Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with two exceptionally bright and insightful technology professionals—Celestia Garner,, and Tracie Edwards, both are Product Solutions Architects with STG. They talked with […]
Advice about IT projects from 2,000 years ago: Count the Costs! Advertisements for inexpensive software and app development populate the internet. A quick search will immediately identify offers like “Fast, affordable app development,” “Software development, save up to 70%,” or “Develop your Business App for $50,000.” Software development projects are exciting and rich with opportunity […]
Anyone who has spent any length of time in the Software industry has heard of the “Daily Standup” and anyone who has participated in a standup is likely familiar the “3 Questions”. Repeat them with me now: What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Do you have any roadblocks? Over the course […]
Author: Brett Child Software developers, and IT in general, have a reputation for being over budget, being late, and not even meeting the needs of the customer. There are a million different reasons for that; such is the complex nature of software development. But, here are a few ways to reduce the risk that leads […]
Author: Andrea Reese Hurst At the request of an engineer who I wrote requirements for, I jotted down some tips for good requirements gathering in a software setting. Here they are, a bit tidied up: Identify the end users, the project owners, and other stakeholders who influence the success or failure of this effort. Schedule […]
Author: Andrea Reese Hurst Coming from a waterfall development environment, I was used to polishing a requirements document to the nth degree before handing it off to development, but in an Agile environment, this put me behind schedule, and didn’t even make good user stories. Here are a few things I learned while working in Agile […]
Author: Mike Chatwin I have heard horror stories from colleagues of daily scrum meetings that run over an hour… STOP IT IMMEDIATELY! A daily meeting running this long becomes a roadblock to several of the basic principles of the Agile Manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org): – Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery […]
Author: Jason Gillies After years of writing software I have seen a few areas that are often over looked. These aren’t hard problems to solve. But they do require planning. If you take the time to think through these issues before building your application you will reduce costs for this and future applications. Don’t manage your […]
