What is Business Intelligence? An IT Leader’s Complete Guide
Business intelligence is one of those domains that have a slightly different definition depending on who you talk to. End users might think about the reports…
Continuous Improvement: A Lean Guide To Business Efficiency
You’re a seasoned professional. A DevOps engineer or a release manager with the virtual scars to show you’ve been around the block a few times. You’re proud…
Business Value: A Guide to Delivering and Measuring It
The goal of software development is ultimately to deliver business value. A company’s software supports many critical business operations. For software development companies in particular, IT…
A Practical Introduction to the Technology Acceptance Model
Before you impose a set of tools on your teams, certain considerations have to be taken into account. To start with, how effective are the tools…
What Is Operational Intelligence? A Detailed Introduction
Every sector has a group of companies working to serve the same purpose. The automobile giants want to build great vehicles, and the companies in the…
Product Strategy: A Guide With Examples and Best Practices
“What should we work on next?” The question hangs in the air, laden with the heaviness that’s been growing inside you since you took on your…
A Complete Guide To the What And Why of Business Agility
Business agility has become a key determinant of the modern firm’s existence. Not being agile when competing companies are coined on (what seems like) a daily…
The Practical Leader’s Guide to Regulatory Compliance
Try as you might, you can’t dodge business regulations. In the first decades of the explosion of tech companies and the internet, regulations were few and…
Failure Metrics in Depth: MTTR vs. MTBF vs. MTTF
Today’s post features a detailed comparison of three DevOps metrics that are vital for enterprises and tech organizations in general. They are, respectively, MTTR, MTBF, and…
What Is a Steering Committee and What Is Its Role?
There you are, staring at a blank document preparing to write a proposal that you’ve been told needs to be sent to a steering committee. Or…
How to Create a Robust Business Continuity Plan
A business continuity plan (BCP) helps companies restart their business operations quickly through a systematic plan of prevention and recovery when hit by a disaster. Businesses…
What Is Advanced Analytics? A Comprehensive Introduction
When you start a new business, you take actions based either on the reference of a similar business or on your hunch. But as a business…