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07/11/2019

Why Product Innovation Slows After The Series A - Technical debt can creep up on any organization and have widespread consequences. It is for this very reason that Sema has built a tool to help quantify technical debt in minutes. We’re proud to be bringing important conversations to the forefront so that there are no surprises when it’s time to scale.

You’ve found product market fit. You’ve hired a team, including some managers. Your initial, small customer base is very happy. You’ve discovered an initial channel of customer acquisition that’s working. You’ve raised a meaningful round of capital. And then, right then, product innovation...

It's all in the last line of this article -- we agree, there is absolutely no point in fixing something that simply ain'...
07/10/2019

It's all in the last line of this article -- we agree, there is absolutely no point in fixing something that simply ain't broken...but it would be terrible for customers to discover the hard way that, yes, it is indeed broken in parts. Sema provides the leading indicators to learn if you have problems with your code and where to prioritize the work to done.

“We need to rewrite this system from scratch”

Encouraging the Wrong State of Mind for Creating Good Code - We liked this thoughtful and provocative piece about the me...
07/09/2019

Encouraging the Wrong State of Mind for Creating Good Code - We liked this thoughtful and provocative piece about the mental states necessary to create innovative code. Of course we think a big way to help free up time spend less time on understanding and fixing existing code, so that there’s more time and brainspace left to create the future.

Your company is doing it and you are enabling it

You know your codebase, team and processes are more than the sum of their individual parts. But to truly understand the ...
07/08/2019

You know your codebase, team and processes are more than the sum of their individual parts. But to truly understand the benefits of codebase maintenance and analysis, you need to start with some simple arithmetic.

The Sema Benefit Calculator helps you learn how your company can make a start on a profitable journey of digital transformation.

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

Sema provides senior management, architects and technical leaders with the definitive set of tools they need to find, fi...
07/08/2019

Sema provides senior management, architects and technical leaders with the definitive set of tools they need to find, fix, prevent and manage technical debt. Our research and client experience has lead us to identify three leading indicators of high-quality codebase quality — and we are offering a no-cost evaluation of your code against these three leading indicators.

Top Three Leading Indicators of Codebase Quality

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

“Perfection is not desirable -- investors understand growing businesses must make tradeoffs on time, speed, and quality....
06/27/2019

“Perfection is not desirable -- investors understand growing businesses must make tradeoffs on time, speed, and quality.”

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

“Improving code quality over time is more impressive to investors than sudden peaks in performance.”
06/26/2019

“Improving code quality over time is more impressive to investors than sudden peaks in performance.”

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

Those companies who have scouted out the most accurate data will see the most profitable results.
06/26/2019

Those companies who have scouted out the most accurate data will see the most profitable results.

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

How are your development teams’ contributions to quality (“the who”): Find developers with the highest contributions to ...
06/18/2019

How are your development teams’ contributions to quality (“the who”): Find developers with the highest contributions to code flexibility and clarity.

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

Key metrics include the process used to create the code (“the how”): Look for files-per-commit variance under 50% over t...
06/18/2019

Key metrics include the process used to create the code (“the how”): Look for files-per-commit variance under 50% over the past 6 months.

Sema provides senior management, architects and developers with the tools they need to manage technical debt. One of the challenges is where to begin.

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