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How Organizations Break Free from the Endless Development Backlog

June 23, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

Most organizations eventually find themselves staring at the same uncomfortable reality.  The development backlog keeps growing, yet the amount of work actually delivered never seems … Read more

Tags backlog management strategies, software development backlog

Why CIOs Are Losing Innovation to Technical Debt (and How to Restore It)

June 16, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

Over the past five to ten years, something subtle but important has been happening inside many organizations.  Increasingly, business executives are relying less on their … Read more

Tags Why business leaders don’t trust IT delivery

Modernize Legacy Systems Before Knowledge Disappears

June 9, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
Modernize Legacy Systems Before Knowledge Disappears

Organizations across both the commercial and government sectors are approaching a moment that, candidly, many leadership teams have not fully accounted for. For decades, critical … Read more

Tags Risks of legacy systems when IT staff retire, 

M&A Blog Series – The Relationship Between a Portfolio’s Product Architecture(s) and a Company’s Valuation

June 9, 2026August 16, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll
Declining valuation

Numerous factors are tied to determining a software technology company’s valuation and these are generally very well understood.  However, ever-tightening due diligence against a portfolio’s … Read more

Tags 2024 Post

M&A Blog Series – Why Software Rollups Continue to Fail to Live up to Their Strategy

June 9, 2026July 30, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll

As software companies grow through inorganic means, or mergers and acquisitions (M&A), it is becoming increasingly common for these rollups to underperform after the dust … Read more

Tags 2024 Post

M&A Blog Series – The Effects of Technical Debt on Valuations

June 9, 2026July 23, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll

Successful software companies inevitably consider the idea of selling; some might even get solicited by larger organizations or Private Equity (PE) firms as acquisition target … Read more

Tags 2024 Post

Why App Modernization Projects Fail Series – Ep 6 Lack of Processes and Tools

June 9, 2026July 12, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll

In this sixth and final episode of exploring why Application Modernization projects fail, we are looking at how the lack of processes and tools can … Read more

Tags 2024 Post

Why App Modernization Projects Fail Series – Ep 5 Application Complexity

June 9, 2026July 3, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll
application modernization complexity

In the fifth episode of exploring why Application Modernization projects fail, we are looking at how the application complexity can contribute as a cause of … Read more

Tags 2024 Post

Why App Modernization Projects Fail Series – Ep 4 Lack of New Feature Development

June 9, 2026June 25, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll

An app modernization project is often dead-on-arrival during the budgeting process if the project doesn’t advance the application for the business or end users?

Tags 2024 Post

Why App Modernization Projects Fail Series – Ep 3 Project Costs and Schedule

June 9, 2026June 18, 2024 by Todd Ingersoll

We’re in the third episode of an six-part series, looking at why application modernization projects fail.  Our first episode covered the main reasons that business … Read more

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