by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 31, 2016 | Chow
You are transitioning support and maintenance of a legacy application from the customer to an onsite/offshore team. The customer has asked you to provide a plan for the Knowledge Transfer (KT) phase comprising: – Number of people onsite (assume New York City),...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 28, 2016 | Business Agility
In previous posts, I had shared the technology and process trends. One common theme across the two is related to better teamwork and collaboration across organizational silos. In this post, I want to share three significant concepts that, when combined with the...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 23, 2016 | Chow
You are the Project Manager for developing a new web-based application for a customer that will replace a series of linked Excel spreadsheets. Senior managers in the customer organization are keen on having this done as they are frustrated by issues arising from lack...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 18, 2016 | Business Agility
Software development used to be known as just software programming in the 1940s. The classic book by Nikolas Wirth in the 1970s – Algorithms + Data structures = Programs, looked beyond the code written into the larger picture of data structure and...
by Shiv Sivaguru | Jan 17, 2016 | Agile
2015 had many new milestones related to technology. One such was IoT – or Internet of Things. I was amused by the nomenclature when I first heard of this – why ‘things’ – usually, to me, a thing is inanimate, that we use. While it can do...