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Should You Build in-house or Outsource Development of Your Mobile Apps?

CTOvision

Execution: With ownership and budget established, the project owner along with senior technical leadership should evaluate and select a vendor to outsource the development. The owner needs to be involved daily – learning, guiding and making all the multitude of day-to-day decisions that will be required.

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The value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization

Xebia

Portfolio management, Program management and the “business wish list” But what about Portfolio managers or Program managers? Another one to consider is technical leadership, experience in the technical domain which can be described as “know your stuff”.

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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Speed to Capability – In the world of commercial IT procurement or development projects, acquisition timelines average 70%-80% less than similar DoD program timelines. To turn this around “speed to capability” should be the primary program metric, with cost, performance, and schedule as secondary metrics.

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Effective DoD Acquisition Needs Less Noise … Part 2

Marv's Smart Future

The well-known valley of death between the DARPA or Military Service Science & Technology (S&T) development and military Programs of Record (PORs) is the result of the high-entropy, high-noise channel, that sits between S&T and the bureaucratic DoD acquisition system.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

You’ll definitely want to take advantage of a half- or full-day workshop, which allows you to dive deeper into the technical knowledge and skills the conference has to offer. In 2018, the Keynote Speaker was Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the.NET team at Microsoft. Strata Data Conference.