PS Pulse Articles

Recently I posed a question to the PSVillage Forums about best practices for integrating PS groups acquired through corporate M&A activity. A couple of years back several PSVillage members collaborated on an excellent do-diligence checklist for PS groups. But my question had more to do with what happens after the deal is done and you find yourself with a new team of people who have diffe ...Read More

History itself is full of stories where the same mistakes are made over and over again. Here is a classic example “Napoleon marched his French troops to invade Russia, almost all of his troops died from hypothermia, disease, and starvation. One hundred and twenty nine years later, Hitler did the exact same thing.” Read More

Traditional Approaches to Increasing Services Sales We’ve all been there – suddenly demand for a previously popular service line declines – maybe it’s been awhile since the last software release or maybe your product sales team hasn’t attracted many new clients in that area. Whatever the reason you have people on the bench and P&L pain. Traditionally ...Read More

Trends such as cloud based software delivery and emphasis on uptime create even greater demands on software quality. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and software-enabled businesses must forego their usual pre-release quality control approaches and instill quality principles into every aspect of product development, from whiteboard to long term maintenance. Users no longer accept the trad ...Read More