O&B Insights: Organizational Development

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Alternative to Fixed-Price Contracts in Software Development

February 11, 2026 - Overwhelming evidence shows that fixed-price, fixed-scope contracts fail in software development. I won’t rehash the reasons here, as they’ve been discussed much better elsewhere. Fixed-price...
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“Sprint Zero” Activities Can’t Fit in One Sprint!

February 11, 2026 - Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban emerged from the rescue of so called “Death March Projects” – projects that had been failing to deliver results,...
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The 5 Common Types of Database Storage & When to Use Each

February 11, 2026 - While, there are a lot of decisions you can make in software development that you can easily change later on, the type of database storage...
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AI Won’t Fix Your Data Problems. It’s About to Magnify Them.

February 11, 2026 - The directive has come down from on high: “We need an AI strategy, and we need it yesterday.” The C-suite sees visions of automated revenue...
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O&B Automates Recruitment with AI

August 14, 2025 - Faster Hiring, Better Talent, Lower Cost In a global talent market where competition is fierce and timelines are unforgiving, speed and accuracy in hiring are...
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BSP’s Tangonan on Revolutionizing Digital Payments

June 18, 2025 - The Philippine digital payments continue to shape the financial landscape with groundbreaking innovations and new models of scalability. At the heart of these discussions lies...
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O&B Partners with Azul to Boost Java Performance and Reduce Cloud Maintenance Costs

June 18, 2025 - Manila, Philippines – June 18, 2025 — Orange and Bronze Software Labs (O&B), the Philippines’ premier experts in Java, Cloud, and DevOps solutions for the...
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Soft Skills, Hard Impact

April 23, 2025 - In today’s rapidly evolving project management landscape, technical skills form the necessary foundation; however, it is often soft skills that differentiate outstanding project managers. These...
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Code the Future: Closing the Gender Gap in Tech Leadership This IWD

April 8, 2025 - Despite women making up a significant portion of the Philippine workforce, a 2023 study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) revealed that women...
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Clean Code: Mastering Software Craftsmanship

January 21, 2025 - Writing clean code is not just a skill but an art that transforms mediocre software into robust, maintainable, and scalable systems. Popularized by Robert C....