We watched Anne Strauss-Weider’s presentation at the Transportation Research Board 2022 Annual Meeting titled “Evolving with Rapidly Shifting Supply Chains and Freight Systems: The Past,… Read More »Evolution of freight: 10 things to know
This week at Beacon, we listened to the podcast: This Is What Happens When Governments Build Software on Bloomberg Odd Lots. We found it relevant… Read More »When government builds software
Government agencies are often responsible for massive projects and public safety — literally people’s lives are on the line. As a result, adherence to strict… Read More »Agile Software in a Hardware World
In software development, two popular methodologies have emerged over the years: Agile and Waterfall. Each approach has its own set of strengths and weaknesses, and… Read More »Agile v. Waterfall
We often think of Generative AI, the type of AI that generates content or code in response to prompts. However, Interpretive AI, or “SynthAI” as… Read More »What is Interpretive AI?
We’ve found that most teams who are responsible for IT or software development projects face a set of unique, but common problems: Though these problems… Read More »What we’re here to solve
We’ve talked to a lot of customers and others responsible for IT projects. We hear about their software challenges, frustrations, and failures, both when software… Read More »5 Reasons IT Projects Fail
Outsourced software development is on the rise. Over the past decade, there’s been an increase in the use of outsourcing for software development and is… Read More »Outsourced software development challenges
We heard it straight from one seasoned CTO’s mouth, who said, “this isn’t conjecture, I’ve been told very specifically – [the engineering team is] strongly… Read More »The case for engineering metrics
Especially in this market, everyone is trying to answer this question. It’s not easy… There’s a lot dragging teams down: trying to recruit, pressure from… Read More »The Agile Basics: what’s working?
