Daugherty Business Solutions

Business Strategy and Innovation

Business Strategy & Innovation Our strategy consultants work directly with business leaders to identify core objectives and craft solutions tailored to the client’s need. We quickly priororitize where investment makes sense for the short term and long term. Business Strategy and IT Alignment Many organizations find challenges with translating business strategy to specific, measurable action. […]

Agile in the Real World – Is It Right for Your Organization?

At Daugherty, we probably hear about Agile Development more than any other topic. Common detailed questions such as: How do I get started? Should I use scrum? Can my PM be the scrum master? Then, there’s also the other big picture questions about the nature of migrating from a waterfall or an iterative approach to […]

The Urgent and Important Work of DevOps

“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – Dwight Eisenhower There are things in our lives that are urgent and important, urgent and unimportant, not urgent and important, and not urgent and not important. The idea is, you first want to get your urgent and important things out of the […]

When Customers Attack! Engaged To Engraged In The Blink Of An Eye

Looking to make a few updates to your loyalty program? There are a few things you should know… If you’re not careful, there could be a volcano of negative sentiment waiting to erupt in the form of your customers. Just ask Starbucks who recently announced this past month that it was changing its loyalty program […]

Application Architect (Java)

Code Notes: Refactoring with the Strategy Pattern

Technology changes fast. With it, new tools and frameworks are continuously becoming available, making it nearly impossible to keep on top of it all.

Technically Speaking Episode 10 with Alex Cruz

In the tenth episode of the Technically Speaking podcast, Caryn and John sit down with the founder of PenPath Alex Cruz. They’re talking about content marketing, startups in STL, emails with famous people, and so much more. He’s also the co-founder of the Meetup STL Content Marketers. Let us know what you think of the […]

Building a Great Team of Software Architects & Engineers – A Recruiter’s Perspective

Recruiting is a relationship business. And, I don’t just mean networking outside the office. There’s so much more to it than just “recruiting.” Of course, looking outside the office walls to identify talent and form relationships is undoubtedly an important part of building a great team, however; it pales in comparison to the essential relationship […]