A Mid-Year Look Back on Accomplishments, Opportunities, and Change
Six months is a short amount of time, but a lot can happen. Since I shared my reflections on 2021 and optimism for the year ahead, Macro Solutions continues to ...
July 27, 2022
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Case Studies
External Publications
Getting started with an agile scrum approach – GCN
Getting fuller participation in agile retrospectives – GCN
How to help agile teams avoid fatigue and burnout – GCN
Kanban for slaying the external dependency monster in migrations – GCN
Information security in government IT: Lessons learned from the financial industry – GCN
Defect forecasting: Turn past mistakes into future gains – GCN
How to Spot Problems Before You Start Moving to the Cloud – Nextgov
Why a Modernization Playbook Focused on Technology Isn’t Enough
Blog
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Elevating the Way the Government Works: Macro Joins Workday Ecosystem as an Advisory Partner in the Federal Marketplace
The past two years have taught us many things. Key among them is the way the federal government works has changed and will continue to evolve. Indeed, the same ...
March 28, 2022 -
Reflections on 2021: Surviving and Thriving, the Macro Way
Looking back at 2021 and what it has meant for Macro Solutions and our community of clients, partners, and employees, evokes a range of thoughts and sentiments....
December 28, 2021 -
Advancing RPA Adoption and Success in the Federal Government: A Discussion with Jim Walker, Former CTO of UiPath
In this three-part series, I’ve had the pleasure of sitting down with Jim Walker, former public sector evangelist and CTO for Americas at UiPath to discuss how ...
December 13, 2021 -
Scaling RPA Through Functionality and Engagement: A Discussion with Jim Walker, Former CTO of UiPath
If you missed my recent conversation with Jim Walker, former public sector evangelist and CTO for Americas at UiPath, check it out here. We discussed best pract...
November 09, 2021 -
4 Steps to Building an Intelligent Automation Center of Excellence
Intelligent automation technologies offer significant value to federal government agencies, if implemented strategically. The latest shiny new technology may cl...
October 26, 2021 -
Getting Started with RPA and Scaling RPA Programs: A Discussion with Jim Walker of UiPath
Helping federal agencies understand how they can integrate intelligence into their automation programs is a hot topic at Macro and the subject of a recent blog ...
September 27, 2021 -
3 Ways Macro is Helping Women Make it to the Top in Tech
When I founded Macro Solutions more than 20 years ago, information technology (IT) was a male-dominated domain. The opportunities for women were few and far bet...
August 11, 2021 -
Providing Business Value Early and Often – The Agile Macro Approach to Advanced Data Analytics
Macro Solutions uses an agile approach to advanced data analytics providing immediate business value Today, analytical predictions and recommendations are readi...
August 02, 2021 -
A 5-Step Roadmap to Achievable, User-Focused Application Modernization
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the value of application modernization in the federal government came into sharp relief. Those agencies that invested in clou...
June 14, 2021 -
Bolstering the Bot – How Federal Agencies Can Integrate Intelligence into their Automation Programs
The federal government is the ideal candidate for intelligent automation. Technologies like robotic process automation (RPA) can handle growing federal workload...
May 28, 2021 -
Creating a Gateway to Opportunity: How We’ve Created a Culture of Learning and Development
At Macro Solutions, learning and development is a gateway to opportunity – for our employees, our clients, and the company itself. And it’s a maxim we’ve remain...
May 17, 2021 -
What a Year! Plans and Reflections on Our Inclusion and Diversity Journey
2020 was a year fraught with events that laid bare many weaknesses and inequalities in our societal models. This includes structural racism, gender and income i...
December 31, 2020 -
Shift IT Budgets to Transform and Grow Mission Services with IT-as-a-Service
There is a broad awareness that the federal IT portfolios—and our thinking about how to manage them—is changing. In most federal institutions, mission and busin...
December 17, 2020 -
A RAD-ical Approach to AppDev Teams
Like many other previously inviolable principles in the world of federal information technology (IT), the conventional wisdom surrounding how application develo...
November 12, 2020 -
The 7 Core Principles of a Continuous Value Office (CVO)
In our previous blog post we provided an overview of a digital services delivery model we refer to as the Continuous Value Office (CVO). A CVO is a next-generat...
October 19, 2020 -
What Good Cooking Can Teach Us About Agility
About a decade ago, I finally crossed the line towards becoming what I would call “an acceptably competent home cook.” What pushed me over the line was that I b...
October 02, 2020 -
Unlocking SAFe: How Federal Agencies Can Operationalize Agile at Scale
Earlier this year our CEO, Amy Wright, wrote about how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is helping the federal government solve its toughest application servic...
August 31, 2020 -
The Principles of IT-as-a-Service that Drive Transformation to a Digital Federal Enterprise
Federal agency leaders seek to incorporate emerging technology to optimize mission services. Indeed, the Deloitte Center for Government estimates that around 1....
July 28, 2020 -
Enabling Federal IT-as-a-Service with a Fresh, Innovative, Proven Approach
Federal IT is being disrupted. Driven by regulation, budget constraints, and the need to deliver more value-driven capabilities, agencies are seeking to optimiz...
July 10, 2020 -
SAFe Helps the Federal Government Solve its Enterprise Application Transformation Challenges at Scale
The notion of government as a rigid institution bound to legacy software development practices is no longer as tethered to reality as it was a few years ago. In...
May 14, 2020 -
Why Silo-Busting Business Practices are Needed for a Successful Work from Home Strategy
COVID-19 is changing how we work. In a matter of weeks, millions of employers have rolled out mandatory work from home orders – and it’s realistic to assume tha...
April 09, 2020 -
How Our Workplace Culture Allows Us to Transform the Customer Experience
The past 12 months have been significant for Macro Solutions, a company that I founded nearly 20 years ago with my brother, who now serves as our COO. Contract ...
March 24, 2020 -
DevOps and Common Missteps in the Decision-Making Process
The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively is critical for DevOps. Common missteps in the decision-making process include the failure to factor the “...
December 19, 2019 -
Getting Value From Change
Good managers understand the value of change. Better managers understand that change can take time and is best applied in small, consumable chunks. An organizat...
October 29, 2019