Praecipio Consulting has been an active member of Pledge 1%, the movement to build corporate philanthropy, since 2015. The mission-driven non-profit asks members to pledge 1% of equity, 1% of time, and 1% of profits to a variety of charitable causes. Praecipio Consulting has fostered on-going relationships with the Colorado River Alliance, Dam that Cancer, TreeFolks, and the Coastal Conservation Association, to name a few, since becoming involved with the Pledge 1% initiative.

Dreading the process of an Atlassian Jira software upgrade? Depending on how many issues you have and how large your instance is, we get it - it’s overwhelming.

When designing Jira Service Desk implementation for your organization, there are tons of choices that need to be made. One important decision during this process is determining how to break down your service desk - Will you have one Service Desk for all of the teams working in the organization? Or will you build out multiple service desks and use the Help Center to route users to different Portals? 

An essential part of a successful organization is communication: open and direct lines of communication ensure that team members react swiftly and effectively. In regards to software and applications, different teams have different needs and collaborating can sometimes feel like speaking in different languages. The reality is, development teams live in one application and business teams live in another.  

As the summer comes to a close here in America, another season arises upon us that encapsulates the fall and winter seasons for the better part of 6 months. That fun and exciting season is American football ladies and gents! A nationally televised spectacle that brings together all types of people and backgrounds to witness the output from an assembly of individuals striving to capture a "W" or win for their respective team(s) and organization(s).

In 2008, I began my tenure with Praecipio Consulting recognizing that I had a great deal in common with Christian and Joe. Joe and I have a Lincoln-Kennedy level of coincidental similarities but beyond that we all shared a passion for leaving the world better than we found it.

“Jira sends too many emails.”

This year, my husband and I decided to FINALLY spend some money on the house. We started our conversation about home improvement at the end of 2018, thinking about “the list”: need, want, nice to have. We went through the exercise of writing separate lists to compare and prioritize. Quite frankly, I was surprised at how similar they were. We quickly realized there was a need to actually organize and prioritize instead of working on notebook paper, fridge magnets, and the occasional sticky note.

The simple definition of a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is an outsourced services provider that remotely manages a client's infrastructure and/or end-user systems. While an MSP can have a variety of focuses, continue reading to find examples of what this means in the IT world. 

Teams new to Scrum face lots of decisions - one key decision for teams to perform efficiently is determining sprint length.