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Black Belt Briefs

Thought leadership and best practices presented in "briefs" for busy managers. Index of topics.

Context Marketing

Technology leadership was once a dominant marketing objective. Today, global competition and narrow market windows requires new thinking about marketing.

Marketing "messages" strategic intent to widely divergent audiences. Read more about marketing's responsibility to detect context incoherence and resolve disconnects by forcing context disclosure and convergence.

Proper measuring of the marketing function is a difficult management challenge. Read about how 21st century leaders are creating and leveraging marketing operations excellence and seeing extraordinary top line results.

Project Capacity Management

Overloaded development organization?

Overloaded development teams rarely deliver high performance. Over-committed development teams are a rampant problem according to most industry surveys.

Too many active projects?

Metrics for development team utilization are not well understood nor used in portfolio decision support.

On-Fire's modeling tools evaluate development's capacity for work against the resource demands of alternative project portfolios.

Find out how more gets done with capacity management load balancing.

Webinar slides

From the 12/17 Agile Development - Open Source webinar with Black Duck Software Inc.

From the 12/11 presentation to Boston PDMA.

Contact us if you want a copy of the handouts.

Practical Open Source License Compliance

Pro-active enforcement of open source licenses is an industry trend. Inadvertent usage of open source can contaminate proprietary code bases and force disclosure of sensitive material.

- Has your software been recently scrubbed for open source?
- Are your OEM vendors properly diligent and keeping you safe?

Using industry-recognized analysis tools, On-Fire evaluates the hygiene of your software and translates the technical and legal jargon into appropriate action.

On-Fire Sponsorship

Engineering Executive Forum, an invitation only peer group of technology executives. External link.

Customer testimonial

"On-Fire's portfolio management technology proved that our organization badly over-drove the development resources. This chronic condition masked poor individual performance that contributed to schedule slippage and poor productivity. With On-Fire's help, we were able to identify and solve both problems."

David Duehren, CTO, Brooktrout Technology