adesso BLOG

Companies today face major challenges: technological progress, digitalisation, a shortage of skilled workers and cost pressure are making operational processes more difficult. Traditional outsourcing is often no longer enough. Instead, many companies are turning to ‘smart sourcing’ – a flexible strategy that combines internal resources with external expertise. In this blog post, you will learn how to successfully make the transition to smart sourcing and what role managed services play in the process.

Projects are often faced with numerous challenges, but sometimes these go far beyond the usual and jeopardise the entire project. This is where the implementation of a "task force" can be the key to success. In my blog post, you can find out how these specialised teams use their agile expertise and professional diversity to overcome critical problems and get projects back on track.

The insurance industry is facing profound change: outdated systems need to be modernised in order to meet the expectations of young, digitally savvy customers and to counter rising cost pressure. The use of AI and digital platforms plays a decisive role in this. But how can the transition from traditional mainframes to future-proof business platforms be achieved? I answer this question in my blog post.

Volunteering is an important pillar of our society. As we see it, volunteering cultivates skills that can also come in handy in software development and IT consulting. Especially in the context of agile approaches and frameworks, you can develop a variety of soft skills by doing volunteer work that can also be put to use in your everyday work. We will describe these in our blog post.

The term ‘fixed price’ raises a number of issues in agile development, since the scope should in theory be clearly defined. However, in practice, the requirements are often incomplete and subject to change. This can lead to uncertainty, different interpretations and, if worst comes to worst, the project failing. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at expectation management and the concept of scope. Along with that, we will also explore several requirements engineering methods that allow you to remain on budget and describe possible solutions in cases where your project is at risk of going over budget.

How do you develop a highly available application that is both scalable and easy to maintain in today’s world? In this blog post, I will briefly explore approaches, methods and tools that I believe can be used to achieve this.

Keycloak is an open-source platform for identity and access management (IAM). It offers extensive functions for secure authentication, authorisation and user management for modern applications and services. I will show you in this blog post how a customer number can be implemented as an additional login feature alongside user name and/or e-mail address.

Hydrogen has become a critical player in the energy sector over recent years. It is seen as the key to achieving the climate goals with its potential in terms of decarbonisation and energy conversion. In this blog post, we take a closer look at the forecasts for hydrogen as well as the associated challenges and explore how adesso can support efforts in this area.

In my view, traditional user stories do not offer the team enough opportunity to stretch their creative legs. I think there are good reasons for writing real stories in backlog items – user experience (UX), customer centricity and, last but not least, motivation. Everyone on the team can identify with a real story – no matter what their role is or what their background is (technical or otherwise). I will explain why in this blog post.