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How to Build Cross-Functional Agile Teams
A truly cross-functional agile team has many masters and specialists who work towards the same goal, and that cohesion brings about some of the best agile software development.
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May 08
HMG Strategy 2020: Executive Leadership Insights from Levvel CEO Chris Hart
Levvel CEO Chris Hart spoke at HMG Strategy's CIO Executive Leadership Summit event. In this video series, Hart talks about effective collaboration, communication, and culture in the c-suite, as well as how technology sharpens the competitive edge.
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Apr 30
What is FedNow and How Does It Impact The Clearing House’s Real-Time Payments?
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Apr 22
Fostering Agile Culture Using the Improv Handbook
Whether it’s a comedy troupe bringing call-backs to a hilarious crescendo, a band composing a new song in a live setting, or an organization valuing experimentation that creates new processes, these guidelines of group improvisation can enable magic.
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Apr 09
KubeCon 2019 Retrospective: Why Kubernetes?
At the end of lunch with a mentee, I used the items on our table to express the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes. Sometime after explaining the purpose of the Kubernetes scheduler, she asked a question I spent the next several weeks thinking about.
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Apr 01
Real-time Payments: Looking Forward in 2020
Now that 2020 has arrived, the reality of RTP adoption has begun to outpace planning for implementation. The RTP conversation is no longer around should it be implemented, but rather of use cases that have been missed to better serve customers.
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Mar 18
Video Series: Real-time Payments Aftermath—Product Management for the Future of Real-time
Throughout this series we'll provide answers to frequently asked questions surrounding product management for RTP, such as managing the product(s) long term, dealing with cannibalizing current products, and more.
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Feb 17
Real-time Payments Strategy: Large vs. Small Financial Institutions
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Feb 12
API Design: GraphQL vs. REST
API design is crucial, giving structure to application interaction. Given cross-functional teams and applications, development time is reduced with a clear, intuitive way to access data. API development often follows two approaches: REST and GraphQL.
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Feb 07
Everything You Need to Know About the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and How to Be Compliant
As of June 2018, the state of California passed a new privacy law that could lead to more consequences for US-based companies than the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Here's what you need to know and how to be compliant.
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Feb 07
What is a Data Lake? A Primer on Big Data Storage
Before your data scientists wring value out of your reams of data, it has to be accessible and, on some basic level, coherently arranged. To harness all that brainpower, you need to keep the data wrangling to a minimum. Enter the data lake.
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Feb 07
Using Data-Driven Agile Metrics to Get The Most Out of Your Team
Inspect and adapt. These are words every agile practitioner will hear non-stop in their career—and rightly so. What does it take to inspect and adapt? The answer is both simple and extremely complex. It all comes down to experiments.
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Feb 07
Exploring the Gentrification of Legacy Applications
Legacy applications get no respect. The developers who wrote them have aged out and no new developers want to work on career-killing software stacks. But they are still faithfully doing the job they were created to do long ago. So what's the problem?
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Feb 06
Source-to-Settle Tools and Topics: What to Watch in 2020
Source-to-Settle is a competitive field. Providers stand out by taking risks on innovative features for efficiency. Here, we review the tools and topics encountered towards the end of 2019 that we believe are going to be relevant in 2020.
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Feb 06
Ensuring the Technical Success of a Digital Innovation Project
Regardless of size and scope of the effort, there are three areas of focus to ensure the success of digital innovation projects: a platform that facilitates rapid ideation, a fully engaged development team, and a supportive enterprise architecture.
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Jan 29
How Real-time Payments Can Help Businesses Better Understand Their Liquidity
In 2019, we participated in the RTP Buildathon, sponsored by The Clearing House, Oracle, Yodlee, and The Carolina Fintech Hub. Our task was creating a compelling use case for leveraging the RTP rail and building a working prototype to demo our idea.
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Jan 27
Real-time Payments: Adoption Waves and Readiness
Real-Time Payment (RTP) adoption and readiness have been a point of consideration for Financial Institutions (FIs) dating back to The Clearing House’s (TCH) announcement to launch the service back in 2014.
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Jan 14
Troubleshooting AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Kubernetes has become the standard when it comes to containerization. While raw Kubernetes is not easy to deploy and manage, cloud services providers such as AWS, Azure and IBM Bluemix provide managed services that significantly ease adoption.
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Jan 13
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