EU GDPR | What impact will it have on your business? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Ever heard of European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR)? It may be quite the mouthful, but it’s one that will soon be rolling off the tongue – because you have less than two years…
Fintech | The trends and their impact By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read There is a new term that has entered the vocabulary of not just information technology specialists but also those within the financial services industry, in the form of “fintech”. Referring to the plateau of technology emerging in the financial sector…
Staying ahead of the mobile app maturity curve By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 7 mins read Cast your mind back to the summer of 2009. Facebook was still in short trousers and the first iOS developers had only been cursing Objective-C for a year. The mobile apps race was already up to speed and although…
Cyber-crime – How to protect your organisation By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Today’s criminals are, on the surface, quite a lazy bunch – after all, now they commit their crimes without even leaving their own homes. Sadly however, for anyone who has fallen victim to cyber-crime you’ll be well-aware of just how…
The Tester and the Project Discovery Workshop By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Project discovery workshops, most reading this article will be familiar with the term and what generally takes place during them and therefore why they are so critically important to the success (or failure) of a software development project. The way…
What is a customer-centric organisation? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Most if not all companies believe themselves to be customer-centric, but there is often a disparity between the self-perception and the reality. It is easy to hang pithy slogans on the office walls – delivering on these values is a much greater…
How technical should a software tester be? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read A question that rages within a tester’s mind often is whether her creative and exploratory skills alone are enough for manual testing (or ‘Sapience testing’ as James Bach calls it, giving the profession some respectability) or should she venture into…
Guide to Algorithmic Business: An introduction By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read For many, the word “algorithm” brings back memories of mathematics classes we didn’t pay attention to as we put the term in the same “I’ll never actually need to use this” category as quadratic equations and standard deviation. However, the reality…
Introduction to multi-tenant architecture By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Imagine you’ve got a business that relies on multiple websites all of which are similar in terms of their basic functionality but have some general differences too – perhaps in their layout, for example. You could, of course, copy and paste lots of…
Being Agile, not Fragile By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 6 mins read Fragile is a kangaroo word. Within the Fragile ‘pouch’ is agile and the two words in a literal sense may not be seen at odds with each other. However within the software development world, we can use the kangaroo word to tell a…
