Thirteen Great Ways to make your Offshore Project Fail | White Paper By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 3 mins read Way back in 2003, Arrk Group’s Executive Chairman Julian Howison was quoted in Computer Weekly (a June 24th article concerning the future impact of offshore on UK IT Services market) saying that when it comes…
White Paper | The 7 Deadly Web Application Security Sins By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read The devil makes work for idle hands – or so the saying goes. Nowadays however, getting ‘hacked’ has become far more than being infiltrated by a bored bedroom geek. Indeed, cyber crime is now such big business…
Establishing a Virtual Offshore Delivery Centre By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read There are a number of problems inherent in the traditional ‘direct’ offshore engagement model where a UK Customer contracts directly with an offshore supplier. These are typically driven by the offshore supplier’s lack of UK domain knowledge, limited capability in effective…
Virtual Offshore Application Management By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read Here’s a question. What’s your business’ greatest asset? You’ll probably say your staff – after all, without them you wouldn’t have a business at all, right? But do you know which staff are your most valuable? Which ones do you depend on to…
Digital transformation best practice thoughts By Ian Southward Thought Leadership 8 mins read Over the last five years or so, there has been rapid evolution in the number of technologies that promise to disrupt established ways of doing business and mean that all organisations driving new initiatives should always take a Digital First approach. Evolution in mobile,…
Cross Browser Testing Conundrum By Shailendra Matkar, Sandeep Maher Thought Leadership 4 mins read Testing applications which utilise Web Browsers is becoming increasing more complex. In the early 1990s, successful testing with a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape meant that you could be confident that the vast majority of users would be able…
Retrospecting The Retrospectives With Distributed Teams By Vishal Prasad Thought Leadership 4 mins read So you have successfully completed a sprint with a majority of your deliverables accepted by your customers. What do you do next? It’s that point in time when you are ready to begin with your next adventure but only after that…
Driving Out Humdrum From Retrospectives By Vignesh Murthy Thought Leadership 3 mins read The Sprint Retrospective ceremony is one of the most important ceremonies for a scrum team as this is the time when the team reviews the sprint, ways of working, existing processes and comes up with improvements/actions which will help them in becoming…
Agile Forecasting with Focus Factor By Vishal Prasad Thought Leadership 6 mins read How many deliverables should we commit to our customers in say the next two weeks? An intriguing question asked by many agile teams at the beginning of every iteration. The answer to this question depends largely on the team’s thinking, philosophy and…
The Cross-browser Testing Conundrum: Strategy and Solutions By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 6 mins read In our previous post we wrote about the testing challenges faced in ensuring predictability and consistency of web application behaviour across different browsers and their versions as employed on desktops or devices driven by one of several operating systems. In…
