O&B Insights: Global

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...

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,...

February 11, 2026 - Devs & testers will always debate about whether a bug is really a bug, and such discussions are healthy, up to a point. If these...

February 11, 2026 - I always start my classes with this: It’s called optimization, not minimization or maximization. Why? Because when you make something faster, you’re usually making something...

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...

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...

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...

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...

May 13, 2025 - Spring Boot’s Dependency Injection is fundamental to building maintainable, testable, and loosely coupled applications. Among the various injection methods available, constructor injection has emerged as...

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...