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The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Five – Cultivate Supportive Environments
Welcome back to our discussions of the 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto! This is our fifth installment of this series which will cover the concept of what I am calling "creating supportive environments." Just as our last discussion pointed out that Agile is...
Podcast: Hybrid Cloud and the Industrial IoT Can Up Your SMB’s R&D Game
For small and medium-sized businesses in the manufacturing industry, hybrid cloud allows for quick and easy integration of what you already have deployed. You also have easier access to new processes, such as the Industrial Internet of Things. This emerging technology...
The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Four – Organizational Cohesion
In this discussion of the 12 principles behind the Agile Manifesto, we will address organizational cohesion. Since Agile is closely associated with software development, it can be easy to forget development takes place in the context of the whole business entity....
Podcast: How Secure are AWS and Azure Cloud Solutions?
Hybrid cloud brings you the best of on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure. But how does it stack up in terms of security and compliance? Two of the biggest vendors in the cloud space, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, have kept pace with one another in...
The 12 principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Three – Deliver Frequently
Today's Agile principle revolves around deriving maximum value from your development effort. This is principle three in our twelve-part series discussing the core ideas behind the Agile Manifesto: Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple...
What Do Late Product Launches REALLY Cost?
Your engineering team’s product launch date just slipped a week. Should you spend $20,000 on an outside engineering service to get the release back on schedule? In these situations, making the right decision quickly requires reliable information and analysis. As more...
The 12 Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto: Principle Number Two – Harnessing Change
Welcome back to the second installment in our 12-part series examining Agile Manifesto principles. Today we'll discuss the idea of coping with changing requirements throughout a project's lifetime as in the Agile Manifesto principle: "Welcome changing requirements,...
How To: Move Git Commits From One Branch to Another
Git encourages developers to use branches during their development process as a means of coordinating and managing changes to the master branch. Git does not force any particular strategy for doing so and consequently, several popular branching strategies have...
SPK (Capabilities + Character) = Client Trust (Q1 2018 Newsletter)
For more than two decades, it has been SPK and Associates' privilege to support our clients’ varied engineering and systems integration needs. We're grateful for the opportunity to be useful to them all, in their various markets. We support a gamut of needs: From...
A Primer on How Hybrid Cloud Can Turbo Charge Your Manufacturing Enterprise
Private cloud-based solutions are scheduled to surpass traditional data centers by the year 2020. But your manufacturing organization shouldn’t wait until the end of the decade to start its cloud migration. Chances are good that your outdated infrastructure is in...
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