What is Engineering Operations (EngOps)? Why do you need it, and how do you effectively deploy it?There’s a strange interplay between IT and engineering teams in most firms. That’s because the tech stack that engineers need to design, build, test, and release products...
Engineering Operations
The problem dispersed design teams face as they scale
SPK and Associates Co-Founder, Chris McHale, is joined by Cloud and Infrastructure expert, Mike Solinap to talk about engineering productivity in a post-Covid world. Working remotely, engineering team are challenged by a lack of technology features including...
3 Ways Your PDM isn’t rolled out properly
In this webinar, SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale is joined by Edwin Chung to discuss Engineering Ops. We define Engineering Operations as all of the actionable work that takes place in order for your product teams to engineer your product. And we believe...
Top 3 PLM Predictions from Oleg Shilovitsky — Talking Beyond PLM
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of BeyondPLM.com, to get his top three product lifecycle management (PLM) predictions for 2015. PLM vendors will encounter greater complexity when delivering cloud solutions New...
Challenges of Managing a BOM Across the Product Life Cycle (Part 2)
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale spoke with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky of BeyondPLM, on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines. In part two of the discussion, they focus in on the difficulty of BOMs across the product life cycle.
Difficulty of BOMs Across Engineering Disciplines (Part 1)
SPK and Associates co-founder Chris McHale speaks with PLM expert Oleg Shilovitsky, founder of BeyondPLM.com, to get his insight on the difficulty of BOMs across engineering disciplines.
Application Managed Services: Engineering Operations Is Essential For Product Development Success
This ebook is the key to accelerating your business growth and product development through the application managed services of Engineering Operations. What Is Engineering Operations? Application managed services are pivotal to business growth. The disruptive...
Three Trends Are Transforming The Service Desk
Your IT service desk is about to change. Find out what's shaping the future. Three factors — enterprise service management (ESM), collaboration, and intelligent service management — are driving the transformation of the service desk. To better meet customers’ needs...
Outsourcing of Vital IT Tasks to Grow in 2013
In 2013, roughly one third of businesses will increase their IT outsourcing budgets. Chief Information Officers and CEOs, from small businesses to large enterprises, are planning to up their spending on the outsourcing of web/e-commerce platforms, application...
Keep Your Developers Developing!
Software companies often choose to rollout new products by having their developers work directly with beta test customers. But is this really a good idea? Not really, but let's understand why not, and then consider a couple of best practices if you just have to do it...
Remember Everything with Evernote!
Evernote has changed my life for the better since I first tried it out a month ago. I have spent much of my life wishing I could keep a little notebook on me at all times to record odd bits of information that I think I might like to remember. Little things. When...
Adapting Business Practices for Green Engineering
As global temperatures rise, environmental regulations are becoming stricter in an attempt to prevent climate change from progressing. As a result of these regulations, businesses across industries are facing pressures to implement green engineering practices. ...