Initial high-level steps and approaches Dropshipping is an online business model in which a store doesn’t keep any of the items it sells in stock. When a customer places an order, the store buys the item from a third party and sends it straight to the customer. The high-level approach…

Communicating continual improvements to users effectively — What are product release notes, and what is their purpose? In the product development lifecycle, there will be frequent updates to the product, e.g., monthly, and the product release notes will provide a summary of the updates to the product users. I have found the product release notes useful in…

Important lessons from my digital transformation journey — I spend a significant amount of my time running digital transformation initiatives for organisations and small businesses. I discovered that the success of an endeavour often boils down to doing several key things correctly. Below are six essential things to take note of: The strategy must be transparent Ask the…

Achieve your digital transformation goals strategically — Why consider? The decision to build or buy software makes a difference to your digital transformation goals in these three key aspects: Timeline —speed to deliver value to customers Quality — product satisfaction and adoption Resources — opportunity/monetary costs and trade-offs #1: Timeline Buying software off the shelf would likely be faster than building…

Tips for catering to the interests of different groups of stakeholders in your digital transformation journey — To effectively manage a large-scale project within an organization, you’ll have to “sell” to many different groups of people from various backgrounds. There is no silver bullet that addresses everyone’s objectives and concerns throughout your digital transformation journey. I have broken down the common objectives into four broad presentation categories:

Designing enterprise-scale applications — What is an architectural design pattern? An architecture design pattern is a reusable solution that can be used to address common architecture challenges as a system grows. How is having a good architectural design pattern important? Implementing good architecture design patterns facilitates and governs your application design such that it adheres closely to the common architecture design principles (SOLID) in some way or another:

A step-by-step guide to getting started with machine learning in cybersecurity — Background Elasticsearch is a search and analytics solution that comes with machine learning capabilities. I was exploring machine learning use cases in cybersecurity and stumbled upon some Elastic blogs on training supervised models and detecting DGA activity in the network written by Camilla Montonen. This article aims to provide you with…

General steps and some considerations to take note — What are the reasons that organisations may want to migrate on-premise applications into the cloud? Obtained from the AWS Value Proposition: Agility — one-click provisioning of services and infrastructure for experimentation and innovation Elasticity — on-demand adjustments of infrastructure capacity to cater to elastic demand and save costs Flexibility — able to switch across products with low barriers of entry and minimal cost impact

Promote synergy across your delivery, design, and quality assurance teams — Why the need for this guide? Synergetic cross-functional teams (XFT) contribute greatly to the success of a program. Benefits of a cross-functional team include increased innovation and efficiency through different skill sets and expertise. However, managing teams from various departments and specialisation require close coordination and orchestration of resources to ensure that the outputs from one…