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Last week, I was honored to participate in the executive panel at Edgehill Consulting Group’s, Find Your Edge 2020 conference. This was the inaugural event in what will become…

Transform your business, they said…It’s easy, just use the Agile SAFe methodology, they said…It will be fun, they said. To be clear, I have never scaled a mountain….

A great company culture starts with authenticity and personal relationships. Tear down the cubicles, buy a treadmill desk, ask your CEO to wear jeans and there you have…

What is Chaos Engineering? Chaos Engineering is “the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions…

How do you deliver high-quality products that work quickly, efficiently, and sustainably for customers?  This question is at the heart of our DevOps support. And rather than be…

Keeping pace in today’s economy requires more than implementing the proper technology solutions. It also requires paying attention to emerging trends, encouraging disruption and embracing innovation. Training, upskilling…

In 2006, I joined SingleStone with one simple goal: demonstrate how consulting can be done differently. I have always loved solving problems across organizations, from my early career…

We live in a world of immediacy.  Do you want a very-berry peanut butter smoothie?  Just click “yes” on your favorite mobile app, and it will be at your doorstep in…

These days, software isn’t just a helpful business tool — it can define the difference between growth and stagnation. And the truth is: Your legacy software is hindering…

More than likely, your organization is generating massive amounts of data. In fact, typical data-centric enterprises manage more than 10 billion files annually — and that number is…

Gone are the expensive, onerous days of managing offsite data centers. Today’s business environment demands the speed and agility that only the cloud offers. But, just because you’re…

One of SingleStone’s Scrum coaches makes an insightful comparison between Agile and the 4x100m relay. I love the 4x100m relay (in the track world it is known as…

Removing distractions and starting with the “why” to guide your company’s customer experience saves time and money. Businesses have a lot of digital distractions these days. It’s hard…

Operating inside an organization without a strategy can be tough. Here’s how to bring strategic thinking into your own work. Strategy, in the business context, deals with a…

Learn about infrastructure as code and the benefits of AWS CloudFormation. Updated November 2019: When I originally wrote this article, CloudFormation was written in JSON only. Thank goodness…

In an era where technological advances happen at an accelerated pace, companies must find and retain tech talent. Finding tech talent is one of the biggest challenges facing…

We are in an era of rapid technological change, and this change is forcing companies to rethink how they view technology, how they communicate with customers and workers,…

Artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality- these are just a few of the technologies at the heart of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a period of rapid technological change the…

Frustrating bottlenecks. Sluggish decision making. Lackluster results. Waste, waste, and more waste.  We’ve all seen and likely experienced all these things. They are a common byproduct of traditional…