Happy Easter, and Happy Passover, to Everyone! At TechCORE MSS in addition to the IT and Professional Services that we provide to clients, our corporate policy includes a commitment to provide volunteer service to our local community, and we are especially pleased when that service can help to bring joy to children This month we...
We recognize that the world of cyber security has changed. Gone are the days where a modest amount of protective technology and strategies provide a reasonable amount of security and residual risk. In a fast-evolving business world, areas of risks seem to evolve even faster than new preventative technologies. Governments and corporate entities are ...
In our day-to-day business lives, we have to handle disappointment, anger, frustration, and, yes, even flaming emails. Since work can take up a good part of our daily lives, we can run the gamut of emotions in the work place. On our best days, we can step back and choose not to react. We can...
Challenging projects. We’ve all had to deal with at least one. Maybe every project is challenging in its own way. Of course, the nature of the challenge defines how to best address problems and move forward, but there are some basic truths that can be applied to all projects. Focus on goals. When facing an...
Sometimes business is a beast. Sometimes you have too many things to manage at once. Sometimes there are not enough hands, eyes, or knowledge to do everything that needs to be done, making success harder to accomplish and pushing stress levels to the maximum. If you are tired of trying to keep all the plates...
If you haven’t heard about the 10,000 hour rule, then you should hear about it now. The concept came from research performed by Anders Ericsson, which had as its goal to figure out what actually makes a someone an expert. Malcolm Gladwell expanded on this study in his book, Outliers, wherein he presents the finding...
“Disruptors” and “disruption” have become recent buzzwords in the tech industry. You are either doing it or protecting yourself from it. The popularity of the term is beginning to replace evangelism and evangelists, but you will still see them out there. Both concepts and roles are associated with change and innovation, but they do not...
How to be a Triple Threat in Business Sing! Dance! Act! This is the Hollywood definition of a triple threat, but what about the business definition?...
O Legacy, How do I Love Thee? Let me Improve You with a BPM. Have you ever tried to build a new solution on top of a legacy system? An “undocumented, patched a thousand times, two people in the world know how to keep it running, backed up with reel to reel tape, and interfaced...
Our work should matter. It should mean something not only to ourselves, but also to the people we help with the work we do. If you’ve ever participated in an agile project, you’re likely well versed in the concept of the “happy path.” In case you haven’t been exposed to the term before, the happy...
Our work should matter. It should mean something not only to ourselves, but also to the people we help with the work we do. In the IT world, it can seem so disconnected between conceiving of projects and delivering to end users (especially if we only ever deal with the beginning stages) that it’s easy...
At TechCORE MSS we will always recognize that our people are our company. At the start of 2021 it continues to be a challenging year for businesses. As I stated in my monthly letter in November, “just as our country is built on the strength of our people, so is our company.” We work hard...
Happy New Year to everyone!! With the start of a new year comes the sense of a new beginning. Many of us will make New Year’s resolutions. Some will succeed and follow through with these goals. Some will simply recommit to goals they have set in the past, but for whatever reason, were not able...
As we prepare to bring 2020 to a close, I find myself humbled but energized by the reality that I am fortunate to lead an organization like TechCORE MSS. Like many businesses and particularly as a small business, we have had to navigate our ability for continued operations during “the year of COVID-19.” Our people...
TechCORE MSS continues to demonstrate our belief that “challenges are opportunities to innovate.” The commitment that we have to our clients has allowed us to maintain a steady growth, acquire new contracts, and recruit new staff with exceptional qualifications and experience, so that as we focus on our clients we can provide the superior project...
As usual, PegaWorld 2015 lived up to expectations, and the TechCORE MSS team was there to learn about the new Pega trends, meet up with old friends, and meet some new potential partners as we look forward to applying some of the new Pega innovations like Pega Express. We are going to take some time...
Please forgive me, Chuck Palahniuk, but I’m going to talk about fight club. Well. Not really. Well. Sorta. I’m going to talk about office politics. I think it’s a fair statement that, similarly, the first “rule” of office politics is: No one talks about office politics. At least, not openly. And why is that...
Background The project we have focused on at Trinity Health is Inbound Document Management (IDM). IDM is an application that was built using Appian BPM software. It enables the end user to index documents that are faxed to the hospital to the correct patient visit, so that orders and other patient care documents can be...
This is an exciting time for TechCORE MSS! Times are changing and we are embracing the changes! We are excited to announce that on October 1, 2020, TechCORE MSS’s office moved its new headquarters to Stafford, VA, with auxiliary locations in Alexandria, Arlington, Springfield, Fairfax, and Reston in VA, as well as Washington, DC, Bethesda,...
