We recently conducted an internal debrief with a software portfolio leadership team that had, on paper, done everything correctly. The modernization roadmap was defined. Funding … Read more
Last week we made the case that the smart money is already leaving VMware, and we closed on an uncomfortable truth. Migration is hard, and … Read more
For most of the last decade, VMware was the safe choice, the platform you could standardize on without anyone questioning the decision. That era is … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
