Salesforce.com data storage costs and the dark side of multi-tenancy
Anyone who has developed on the Salesforce.com platform will tell you that it has many limitations. For example, if your application is particularly data heavy, the limits on data storage will quickly become a problem. Salesforce.com has implemented a seemingly arbitrary data storage minimum of 2Kb / record, meaning it only takes 500,000 records to [...]
5 Ways to Build Great Software Without Involving Any People
In case you haven’t checked lately, there’s no Make Great Software button on your computer keyboard. And even if there was, it wouldn’t work anyway because software is all about people, right?
It takes people to understand the needs of other people. It also takes people to address those needs with appropriate solutions.
Or does it?
At Architech, [...]
Whitepaper: Great Team, Great Software – Understanding the “People” Factor
What pops into your head when you hear the word “software”? Many business leaders would reply “computers” or “technology”, which is ironic because software is all about people. Software is conceived by people, built by people, and intended for people to use. Naturally then, the quality of a software application depends on the people who [...]
9 software adoption questions to think about
Even the most sophisticated software system will fail if users don’t adopt the tools, and buy into the new process. However, the technical development, integration, and eventual rollout of a new software system typically get’s all the attention at the expense of an end-user adoption plan.
In order to ensure adoption a new system, here are [...]
Whitepaper: Home Ice Advantage – Local Software has a Competitive Edge
As business leaders consider the viability of hiring low-wage, offshore developers for their software projects, they must understand that the cost of labour is only one piece of a larger outsourcing puzzle. In fact, the very success of complex, highly collaborative software engineering projects can be jeopardized by offshoring because of the communication problems and [...]
Architech to present at the Montreal Salesforce.com User Group
I am happy to be part of the recently formed Montreal Salesforce.com User Group.
I’ll be in Montreal on April 15th talking about how reports are one of the keys to unlocking value in Salesforce.com. Specifically I’ll be talking about:
Creating custom report types
Measuring campaign effectiveness and best practices
How to drive marketing automation with reports using workflow and roll-up summary [...]
Sprint 0 + Why?
Pam (one of our Scrum Masters) and I were having a chat about this over lunch yesterday… apparently the sprint 0 concept has been bandied around the Agile community so the concept itself, even the terminology, is not foreign… When I was thinking about sprint 0 there were several motivations.
Architecture in Scrum is almost non-existent. This is a [...]
Why Agile? 10 good reasons …
Business Value. Features delivered incrementally enable business benefits to be delivered early.
Speed to Market. Agile supports early & regular releases of working code.
Quality. Testing is integrated throughout the lifecycle.
Visibility. Encouraging active “user involvement” gives a clear view of the project & product progress.
Risk Management. Agile helps to ensure early identification of issues.
Flexibility. Change is [...]
Agile development – 9 rules to live by
Jungho Kim, our VP Delivery and partner at Architech, discussed the following 9 points at a recent project kick-off.
Each story must be backed by a test. Test driven development is the best way to ensure delivery of quality code.
Pair up. Pair programming, especially in the early stages of a project, is a great way to [...]
Whitepaper: Hit the Target with E-mail Marketing – One-to-One Best Practices
Now that marketing automation has become a must-have for so many companies, business leaders need to understand how to jumpstart their automation strategy with first-class e-mail marketing. Batch and blast campaigns no longer work and are being supplanted by one-to-one marketing techniques. This white paper introduces some best practices for one-to-one e-mail marketing and describes [...]