5 Best Practices That Boost Development Effectiveness, Part I
The Non-Technical Practices What can my organization do to improve its development productivity? That question is on the mind of many a manager when faced with the aggressive timelines borne of a...
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The Technical Practices In Part I, we covered two non-technical practices that not only bring immediate and lasting improvements to software development effectiveness, but will also provide leverage to...
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The Strategic Buyer as an Endangered Species
About a year ago, we published an article titled “Why Tech Companies are Favoring Private Equity Over IPOs” in which we described the shift from public to private markets as a source of liquidity for...
View ArticleHow Loosely Coupled Architectures are Helping the Modernization of Legacy...
Over the course of the past 18 months, we have been involved in no fewer than a dozen engagements where large, mostly monolithic applications needed to be re-architected, moved to the cloud, and...
View ArticleProcess Matters: How Underlying Productivity Issues Can Derail Tech Companies
When considering an investment in a software company, what are the most important factors to weigh? Investors, VC and PE alike, tend to prioritize analysis of multiples and revenue projections that...
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The Intel “Meltdown” and Its Unintended Consequences
Meltdown and Spectre will wreak havoc for years to come Last week, in between presidential tweets about nuclear buttons and record cold across the country, the tech industry quietly absorbed what could...
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Worried About Meltdown and Spectre? You Should Be!
An in-depth look at these vulnerabilities and how they affect you Recently, several parallel groups of researchers announced the discovery of two vulnerabilities in modern CPUs from Intel, AMD, and...
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How to Be Prepared for Technical Due Diligence: What to Anticipate and How to...
There comes a time in the life of many software companies for a substantial raise of capital or change of ownership, typically without much advance notice given to the R&D organization. Obviously,...
View ArticleA Decade In: A Conversation with Chris Bulger
Bulger Partners is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. In this interview, Founder Chris Bulger reflects on the firm’s history, lessons learned, and how the Software Economy is different from...
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Optimizing Product Management in the Software Economy
“So, what should we do with product management?” is a question we are asked on a regular basis by private equity investors evaluating potential acquisitions or their portfolio software companies. Every...
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