SQL or NoSQL: The fairy tale By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read A long, long time ago, when the Earth was still young, an innocent computer science graduate entered a castle, looking for work. The castle’s occupants were kind and took him in. Surrounded by experienced analysts, designers, programmers and testers, he developed his…
Applying the Red Route Theory to your Organisation By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read It may seem like an odd combination: applying a Transport for London concept to your business. However, red routes in London have more in common with the way we work than you may think. Here we take a look…
SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud: A Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Described as “driving innovation inside many, if not most, enterprises” by Vince Kellen in the Cutter IT Journal, social, mobile, analytics, cloud (SMAC) represents a bundle of new technologies that is rapidly replacing basic messaging and communication services, as…
Feature Driven Development: A Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read If you want fast functionality from your software, then feature driven development (FDD) could be the key. Feature driven development revolves around quick development cycles and provides businesses with feature-rich systems because they are constantly developing. What is the history of feature…
Team Dynamics in Agile: An Exploration By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 7 mins read Team Dynamics is a hugely important part of putting together and managing high performing software engineering teams. It can sometimes be de-prioritised however and in some extreme instances, completely forgotten under the pressures of working with stringent timelines and deliverables. It…
Can Agile Methodology work on a fixed bid project? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Today, as much as Agile is scoring over traditional methodologies like Waterfall, the customer demand for fixed bid (AKA fixed price) projects has not died down. Even though Agile significantly improves its success quotient due to improved communication/collaboration, rapid…
Innovation Games: An Online Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read The importance of marketing to the success of a business should never be underestimated. Marketers have a unique position in that they are talking directly to consumers and gaining insights that help create discussion and trail-blaze new solutions that can guide a…
Digitising public services in the UK: An introduction By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Better public services that are more integrated and readily available than ever before. That’s the manifesto behind the Government’s decision to digitalise public services in the UK. However, is it really working? In this introduction to digital public services…
Hybrid Cloud: What is the hybrid cloud? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Seen by some as the middle ground between offering all computer services on premises and offloading all of your computational and storage time to a cloud, hybrid clouds are rapidly gaining ground in the business world. However, just what is…
iBeacons: Tomorrow’s retail stores today By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read Take a trip to your favourite retail store in 2015 and you might just notice several discrete iBeacon devices dotted around the shop’s walls, these micro-location gizmos are promising to usher in a new way of shopping on the high street. In this…
