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According to Headspring’s CEO Dustin Wells, “Walt brings a unique combination of product vision and a proven ability to develop great teams. A two-time winner of CIO Magazine’s Enterprise Value Award, Hauck is recognized for driving business innovation through vision and technology. Prior to joining Headspring, he led product development at Haemonetics and Pamplona Communications and served as VP of Worldwide Technology at Pfizer, where he led the development of electronic submissions and paperless clinical trials. “Walt is one of those rare technology leaders that really focuses on knowing the customer’s business,” commented Dr. Ed Harrigan, retired SVP of Regulatory at Pfizer and Board Member for several biotechs remarked.

In this talk from DOES Las Vegas, we were proud to team up with one of our partners in the Insurance industry to talk about the people-side of this technical process. Travelers insurance company had enlisted us to help them with a long-term modernization project designed that would enable them to scale into new coverage areas more quickly. She joined Headspring’s VP of Service Delivery, Vasudha Prabhala, to talk about how we worked together with their team to avoid the kind of change overload that can cause a modernization project to short out too quickly. * How to prioritize what to change and when, and measure whether it’s effective Kari and Vasudha also talk about how an incremental approach to modernization helps drive acceptance across project teams, stakeholders, and end-users.

We’re pleased to announce that Headspring has once again made  Software Guru’s list of Best Places to Code—named the #3 agency in the Boutique Firms category. Their annual “Best Places to Code” awards recognizes those companies that are a pleasure to work for as a technology professional, regardless of the size, location or sector of the company. A clear example is remote work,” said Mara Ruvalcaba, Director of Operations at Software Guru. We’re humbled by the candid love we received from our Mexico team, who are true technology experts and awesome people.

Microservices introduce major complexities the moment we move away from a single service and process to multiple ones. Let’s look at the problem holistically: We want to uphold the fundamental autonomy of any microservice-based architecture while designing a communication strategy that enables services to achieve their purpose in the world. In his talk from DDD Dallas, Jimmy looks at some basic communication patterns to see where we might run into problems and how advanced conversational patterns can help. He’ll walk you through some real-world scenarios to demonstrate how complex coordination and conversation patterns can get services communicating effectively while retaining our all-important autonomy and loose coupling.