Insights

SPAN enabled Pandora to achieve resilience against data center failures after a lightning strike exposed critical weaknesses in their original infrastructure.

Rough design up front, is often the best way to start a project. Not every project is so complex and uncertain that is must be evolved from scratch. Significant parts of most solutions can, and should, be designed up front.

For high stakes projects where failure to deliver a defined feature set, or delivering late, would be catastrophic a more formal approach to risk management is required

Rather than a wasteful Darwinian exploration of a problem space it is cheaper and more effective to guide the process - Here's how.

For the Agile Enterprise to endure it must adopt a strategy that preserves key knowledge over the long term

Rough Design up Front is a great way to start many projects but when is a rough design good enough?