In this 12-part series we will examine 12 underlying principles behind the Agile Manifesto, starting with principle number 1: Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Let's break this statement down...
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A Primer on How Hybrid Cloud Can Turbo Charge Your Manufacturing Enterprise
Private cloud-based solutions are scheduled to surpass traditional data centers by the year 2020. But your manufacturing organization shouldn’t wait until the end of the decade to start its cloud migration. Chances are good that your outdated infrastructure is in...
Ensuring Information Quality and Version Control with the Top 10 ISO 9001 Practices
Achieving compliance with ISO 9001 requires making quality and version control a priority. This eBook explores our experts’ ten best practices for ensuring ISO 9001 compliance.What You Will Learn Discover tips for achieving ISO 9001 certification such as: Establish a...
An Engineer’s Guide to CAD and the Renaissance of Product Design
Modern developers are either upgrading their technology or falling behind. Discover how new CAD technologies and other product design tools are altering the engineering space.What You Will Learn Discover how technologies like Creo and Creo+ from PTC are helping...
SPK and Associates Named to Top Global Managed Service Providers for 7th Year In A Row
Scotts Valley, CA-based consulting firm, SPK and Associates, is on Channel Partners 2025 MSP 501 for the 7th year in a row. The annual Channel Partners MSP 501 list, a technology industry benchmark, ranks companies based on a wide range of metrics. These include...
How Cloud-Based CAD Is Changing the Future of Collaborative Design
Traditional desktop-based CAD tools, while powerful, can have a hard time meeting the growing demands of modern engineering teams. They need better connectivity, scalability, and flexibility. That’s why cloud-based CAD (Computer-Aided Design) is quickly becoming the...
Meet the Experts: Darla Kost
Darla Kost started as a DevOps engineer at SPK and Associates in July of 2024. Prior to joining SPK, Darla was an engineer in the U.S. military. Now, she works with similar tools and focuses much of her time on managing infrastructure and automating processes.My Role...
5 Reasons to Use ntop for Network Management
One of the most critical aspects of your network infrastructure is how well it's performing. The question that I often get asked as a provider of infrastructure services is, "Am I getting the most out of my local network and my internet bandwidth?" This is the one...
5 Continuous Integration Best Practices to Consider
This week we would like to have a look at some continuous integration best practices. The list presented here is not exhaustive, and was inspired by a larger post on the topic at: http://www.thoughtworks.com/continuous-integration Our purpose is to expand on some of...
3 Ways That HxD Can Promote Software Engineering Best Practices
It can often be the case that better software engineering practices may be promoted by the use of good software engineering tools. That is, tools that assist the engineer to better understand the current state of the work product. As we know, the final work product is...
3 Top Trends in Product Lifecycle Engineering Tools
Overview In 2015, SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with Peter Thorne, Director at Cambashi, a Cambridge, England-based independent industry analyst firm. With his over 30 years of experience as a software engineer user, vendor, and now analyst, Peter’s...
3 Real World vSphere Situations to Avoid
Almost a year ago, I wrote about 10 Pitfalls that Can Impact VMware Performance. I thought I’d revisit this topic, provide some specific situations I've encountered over the past year, and explain what I've learned from them. You may have already taken the advice of...