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The Next Frontier: Leveraging ChatGPT and Generative AI in Business – Promises, Pitfalls, and Practical Considerations

Today’s business leaders find themselves navigating a world in which artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly pivotal role. Among the various types of AI, generative...

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Our Current Projects

Model Governance Project: We are helping a large secondary mortgage market participant meet the regulatory and compliance needs of their enterprise risk management team...

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CC Pacers created a Monopoly of support for Guess Who?

In recognition of April being Volunteer Month, CC Pacers came together in support of Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS). NVFS is a nonprofit organization that...

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Janettee Brace will be speaking at AGILE 2023!

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Agile Training

Through our 20+ years of experience helping companies adopt Agile principles, we’ve found that every organization has a set of unique circumstances that must be...

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Embedded Banking: The Future of FinTech Highlighted at Las Vegas Fintech Meetup

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the annual FinTech Meetup in Las Vegas, where industry leaders and enthusiasts gathered to discuss the latest...

Case Studies

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CC Pace Names VanTassel as New President

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Always in the Race!

Always in the Race, this is the Team Stallions motto! The pandemic hit in 2020, it shut down many activities worldwide including cricket. Cricket was affected...

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Are you a 10?

The latest trend on TikTok is a game called “He’s a 10 but.” It’s a simple game where friends rank imaginary partners based on different...

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Agile Challenges

Does your Agile Transformation feel like it is stuck in mud? Maybe it is facing one of the many challenges organizations must navigate as part...

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Our Team

At CC Pace, our most important asset is our people. Check out some of our awesome teammates!

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CC Pace Welcomes Mike Wittrup as Agile Practice Director

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Community Banks: A Reflection of the Past?

Banking is continually evolving, and lately, I’ve been reading a lot about the need for community banks to embrace digital transformation. How do Community Banks...

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FS draft

Financial Services as an industry is experiencing unprecedented change – driven by evermore savvy customers, the emergence of new products and sectors, and advances in...

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Have you heard of OKRs?

Have you heard of OKRs? Is your organization considering adopting OKRs? If so, this post is for you. OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results....

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Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify

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Superior Performance Award

If we asked you to list the three best parts of your job, most of you would have the relationships you have formed with your...

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Monday, Friend or Foe?

Good Morning – Yes, it is time to brace ourselves it’s Monday, again! I think I can hear the communal groan from here. What is...

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Agile Transformation Maturity

As a Senior Scrum Master, I’ve worked with many organizations, and I’m frequently asked by leaders one common question: how long will it take for...

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What happened to my AWS Amplify Customizations? A new way to override resources

We’ve been using the AWS Amplify toolkit to quickly build out a serverless infrastructure for one of our web apps. The services we use are...

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Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify is a set of tools that promises to make full-stack, cloud-native development quicker and easier. We’ve used it to build and deploy different...

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Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify (Part 3)

Here is our final video in the 3-part series Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify. In case you missed Part 1 you can...

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I am a mortgage baby, and proud of it! That is what I was called, before I even started my journey in the mortgage business, a...

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CC Pace Hires Joe Fuqua to Lead Financial Services Division

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It’s been 18 months since COVID changed our lives, 18 months of living in a surreal world, and 18 months of working from home for...

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Join Anup Dhanokar for his upcoming webinar: Status Vs. Inspect and Adapt – A Tale of Chicken Curry

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DevOps Ideas, Patterns, and Practices are Central to Agile 2

According to Deutsche Bank CIO Frederic Veron, “enterprises that wish to reap the potentially rich rewards of getting IT and business line leaders to build...

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Have I Been Pwned

Background We all are humans and tend to take the easy route when we come across certain scenarios in life. Remembering passwords is one of...

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Why IT Managers Should Care About Agile 2

Everyone says you should use Agile. The call for Agile has reached the CEO level: I myself have heard CEO announcements stating that the organization...

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Thoughts on: Why Distributed Software Development Teams Work Infinitely Better

Recently, I read an article titled, “Why Distributed Software Development Teams Work Infinitely Better”, by Boris Kontsevoi. It’s a bit hyperbolic to say that distributed...

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Does Your Culture Support Your Strategies?

Organizations with internal cultures that are aligned with their strategies are far more effective than those without aligned cultures. Decades of data prove this.[1] For...

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Are You a Follower?

Did you know nearly 50% of the world‘s population uses social media platforms? Social media is far-reaching, powerful and has become a necessary component of...

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Is Your Agile Journey Evolving?

CC Pace’s Philippa Fewell and Agile 2 Academy have co-authored a white paper “Is Your Agile Journey Evolving?”. Here they discuss the evolution of Agile...

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CC Pace Promotes Suzie Wheeler to Director of Talent Acquisition

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Animal Friends!

Last month CC Pacers participated in a community outreach event to support Animal Friends – VA. Animal Friends – VA is a small local non-profit...

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CC Pace Appoints Jenna Bayer to Director of Marketing

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In 1980, Mike co-founded CC Pace and, to this day, he remains a hands-on principal of this information technology and business consulting firm. As CEO,...

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40 Years and Forward – The CC Pace Culture

CC Pace would not have reached our 40th Anniversary without a strong corporate culture, which is why we have decided to dedicate this third blog...

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COVID 19 – Changing the Digital Banking Landscape Part 1

While digital banking has been on the upswing for many years, the COVID 19 virus has changed its trajectory. While many consumers prefer conducting banking...

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A Career Development Story

Discover how Sandi Voskian started at CC Pace in a support position for our recruiting team and grew that position into becoming a Recruiter Coordinator....

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Evolving to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) – Part 2

In the previous blog, I had provided insights on what ZTA is, what the core components that belong to ZTA are, why organizations should adopt...

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40 Years and Forward – Adaptability is Key!

As we mentioned in our previous post, we are celebrating our 40th anniversary and, as part of our celebrations, we have created this 40 Years...

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Job Hunting during the Pandemic

“This isn’t a time to postpone your job hunt…” Yes, hiring may be slowing down, but it is not coming to a halt. There are...

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Evolving to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) – Part 1

I have a deep interest in cybersecurity, and to keep up with the latest threats, policies and security practices, I became a member of ACT-IAC...

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40 Years and Forward

Welcome to the first blog in our 40 Years and Forward anniversary series! All of us here at CC Pace love thinking back about where...

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We recently conducted a (sold out!) webinar on the LIBOR Transition, driven by the NY DFS sending a letter to over 1,000 companies that they...

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FREE Webinar – LIBOR to SOFR: Does Your Plan Measure Up?

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CC Pace partners with FIRM Advisors to Provide LIBOR Transition Services

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Holiday Cheer with Toys for Tots!

The primary goal of Marine Toys for Tots is to help bring the joy of Christmas through the gift of a new toy and send...

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NVTC Technology Innovation Committee Tech Demonstration – DEVOPS

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Survey says: Holiday Season Favorites!

The holiday season brings with it a flurry of fun activities, things like, gatherings with family or friends, taking part in treasured traditions and eating...

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ACT-IAC Health COI November Meeting

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So Others Might Eat (SOME) Dinner Gala

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Mission Systems Lifecycle Support (MSLS) Industry Day

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Can you guess who just Celebrated 15 Years at CC Pace?

One of our very own just celebrated this big milestone and rather than just giving you the 411 on it all, we’d like to change...

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Women in Technology (WIT) Job Fair

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Our recent quarterly meeting made for a fun afternoon and evening for everyone. We had a lively staff meeting with presentations, service awards and team...

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New Case Study: Building an Innovative Mobile Navigation Application for an Ambitious Virginia Startup

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As any successful leader will tell you, it is the people in your company who ultimately determine the success or failure of your business. At...

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George Mason Just In Time Job Fair

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MARC (MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE)

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Is your pricing compliant? Questioning a long-held assumption…

CC Pace recently completed an interesting project for a mortgage lender who had just done an acquisition. The project questioned a fundamental assumption of loan...

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Although Charles Darwin adopted the term “Survival of the Fittest” from Herbert Spencer to describe his theory of evolution, it is easy to misunderstand if...

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National Mortgage News: Web Seminar Mortgage lending today, tomorrow and beyond

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Working Together with Millennials

Now that you have hired millennials, this last blog in our millennials series discusses integrating them to become part of your team, and making changes...

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As digitization of the mortgage process (finally) gains steam, lenders need to start looking towards the future when everyone is digital. What will it mean...

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Whether delivered by a rocket or obtained at a depot, the reality is that the digital mortgage has finally arrived. Regardless how different organizations may...

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Interviewing Millennials

We came across in interesting article on Tips for Interviewing Millennials (And What They Really Want from a Job). It discusses how, in the workforce...

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Social Media Week Fairfax (SMWFairfax)

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Drawing the Curtain Back on the Magic Elixir – Part 2

Introduction In the last post, we looked at pattern matching and data structures in Elixir. In this post, we’re going to look particularly at Elixir...

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Awards, Barbeque and Corn Hole?

CC Pace had the pleasure of celebrating two very special service awards at our quarterly staff meeting. The first one went to Lee Minai, Senior...

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MBA Annual Convention & Expo 2018

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The Customer Perspective… From Beginning to End

We only have to take a look around to know that while great strides have been made providing technology and applications to help customers with...

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Drawing the Curtain Back on the Magic Elixir – Part 1

Introduction Last June I took over an Elixir based project that involves a central server communicating with various devices over a TCP/IP network. This was...

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We want to hear from you!

CC Pace is proud to announce the launch of our most recent market survey in which we explore some of the current trends in mortgage...

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CC Pace Sponsors The Stallions!

CC Pace recently partnered with The Stallions, a highly regarded team in the Washington Metro Cricket League (WMCL), as a corporate sponsor. Ashok Komaragiri, Lead...

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CC Pace to participate in Potomac Forum’s Agile in the Government Workshop June 14, 2018

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Attention Mortgage Lenders! Check out our latest Mortgage Industry Survey available now – Take the Survey Below!

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Attracting Millennials to Join Your Team

In our previous blog What Really Matters to Millennials Today, we discussed that more than one third of the workforce today are millennials. Employers are...

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Agile Engineering, SAFe and DevOps: A Roadmap to Adoption at the Potomac Forum

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Good luck to the STALLIONS as they kick off their Cricket season!

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Introduction This is the second in a series of posts about our experience using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to build a deployment pipeline for...

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Jannette Brace receives Kanban Accreditations from Lean Kanban University

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SOME Gala – Helping Others in Need

Recently, we attended the SOME Gala at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community-based organization that...

Bottom Line: Retention is Important!

Any business will tell you that retaining employees is important. The costs involved with the turnover of employees equals about a quarter of their annual...

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Register now for our FREE Webinar: An Overview of the Agile Product Owner

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Food for Others Power Pack Event

CC Pace employees came together to for a food packing event to support the efforts of Food for Others Power Pack Program. The Power Pack...

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CC Pace Wins BPA at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)

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Kirk or Picard as Project Manager?

With Star Trek: Discovery’s television debut rapidly approaching, I can’t help but reflect on the many valuable lessons on project management I took away from...

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Revisiting the Lessons I Learned as an Intern – 20 Years Later as a Mentor

Boy this summer flew by quickly! CC Pace’s summer intern, Niels, enjoyed his last day here in the CC Pace office on Friday, August 18th....

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Jeff Henley to Lead CC Pace’s Federal Practice

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MBA’s Annual Convention and Expo

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Social Media Week Independent Fairfax

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Volunteering and Making a Difference

Each year the Fairfax Animal Shelter helps four to five thousand animals by providing a safe environment and adoption services. CC Pace employees and friends...

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CC Pace recognized four employees who were celebrating their 15th and 35th anniversaries at our quarterly meeting earlier this month. CC Pace President, Mike Gordon,...

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Sure, the office seems nice, the finishes are modern, fresh and bright, but day-to-day what goes on within the walls of the office environment are...

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Webinar: Mortgage loan processing: Helping to reduce operational risks and improve overall efficiency

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Many people ask, what is the distinction between an Agile adoption and an Agile transformation? The former being the adoption of an Agile method and...

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Introduction to DevOps Webinar

To download a copy of our Introduction to DevOps Webinar please fill out the information below for access to the download link.

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Introduction to DevOps – Thank You

Thank you for your interest in our Introduction to DevOps webinar. Please click on the link below to access the presentation. If you wish to...

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Let It Go and Empower

As a manager or leader, some of the biggest mistakes you can make are not sharing your vision, holding on to control, not letting your team...

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The Art of Planning an LOS Implementation Budget

Pulling from our considerable experience with the unique aspects of implementing a mortgage loan origination system (LOS), CC Pace has recently published a new white...

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The Art of Planning an LOS Budget

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First Impressions…Lasting Images

In our personal and professional lives when we meet new people, even if just for a minute, they walk away with that first impression of...

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PMI’s M2D2 Monthly Downtown DC Meeting

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Jannette Brace will be presenting at the Agile Testing & Test Automation Summit in Seattle, WA on May 5th

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MBA’s National Secondary Market Conference & Expo 2017

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Make Your System Demo Count!

As a continuation of our blog series on system selection, it’s time to discuss helpful tips to facilitate a successful product demonstration. The organization and...

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ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance: Agile Acquisition & Contracting

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Scrum Master as Facilitator

In December, I wrote a blog about the role of Scrum Master as a Facilitator, see it here. In today’s post I want to go into...

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Don’t be a Lollygagger!

I have enjoyed using analogies between baseball and software development in a few of my previous blog entries, so with Major League Baseball’s season underway,...

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We have all heard the saying, “it’s all about who you know”. Job seekers today find that to be truer than ever, with U.S. News...

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Do you ever think about why there are some things in your life that that you do year in and year out, while others fall...

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CC Pace Launches ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) Certification Course

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Scrum Master – Facilitator and More

When I am out providing Agile classes, the topic of what Scrum Masters do all day comes up pretty frequently. Attendees ask questions like; “How...

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If I told my 6-year-old daughter, Gracie, to get out a piece of paper and a pencil, she would likely get out a pencil and...

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Thank You

Thank you for contacting us. We will get back to you with a personal response from a CC Pace team member.

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Your Business & Technology Partner

Looking to increase customer satisfaction? Seeking to improve your business processes for greater efficiency? Needing to upgrade your under-performing technology platforms? Wanting to transform your...

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In-house vs Outsource

Picture this: you’ve recently been hired as the CIO of a start-up company. You’ve been tasked with producing the core software that will serve as...

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Yoga Pants? Sweats? Shorts? Pajamas? Working from home full-time is more than just having the option of turning on your laptop in comfortable lounge wear....

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Thank You!

Thank you for contacting us. We’ll get back to you with a personal response within 48 hours. In the meantime, please feel free to look...

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Your Business & Technology Partner

Looking to increase customer satisfaction? Seeking to improve your business processes for greater efficiency? Needing to upgrade your under-performing technology platforms? Wanting to transform your...

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Have you heard that not all Agile Transformations are successful? Have you wondered what makes some transformations more successful than others? Are you wondering if...

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Chris Gill joins CC Pace’s Financial Services Practice

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Trains, Planes, Automobiles and Smartphones?

As Wall Street analysts predict smartphone sales will continue to level off due to varying levels of market saturation, does that actually mean smartphone utilization...

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Building a new software product is a risky venture – some might even say adventure. The product ideas may not succeed in the marketplace. The...

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2016 Food Fight – Feed My Starving Children MobilePack Event

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AFEI Agile in the Government Summit 2016 – CC Pace is a Silver Sponsor

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AgileDC 2016

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Retrospectives: Essential For Any Team and Doing Any Kind of Work

No matter what kind of work we do, we look for feedback from our customers, our co-workers and our peers. Why do we do that?...

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CC Pace to participate in the FBI Government Industry Day

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CC Pace’s Corporate Staff Meeting and Annual Party 2016

CC Pace President, Mike Gordon held a corporate staff meeting to review our previous year’s results and successes and introduce our business plans and initiatives...

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Do You Need Continuous Delivery and DevOps?

According to James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, “Lean Thinking is a business methodology which aims to provide a new way to think about...

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MBA’s National Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference & Expo 2016

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Tech Startups and Agile

Recently, I attended a meetup for Loudoun’s Tech Startups in Ashburn, VA. It was a great opportunity to discuss ideas in various stages of development,...

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Fairfax County EDA in 2015 worked with 179 businesses adding almost 8,700 jobs to the local economy

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CC Pace Launches TRID Relief Program

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Documentation in Agile

We’ve all heard something about Documentation in Agile. I know I’ve heard some pretty extreme comments like “there is no documentation”. Well I’m here to...

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Face to Face is the best method of communication and that’s the method that Agile promotes. The benefits of Co-located teams are numerous- streamlines product...

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Many times I have seen newly formed or new to Agile teams and organizations moving from Scrum and/or Kanban to eventually settling for Scrumban as...

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Avaya-Certified Telecommunications Engineer

We have an immediate opening for an Avaya-Certified Telecommunications Engineer who will provide telecommunications engineering support for a federal organization in Washington DC with several...

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Sprint Capacity

Before I get to how much capacity there is in a sprint, let’s take a look at the flow. If you are doing Scrum, you...

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Executive Leaders Radio

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CC Pace’s 35th Anniversary Celebration!

CC Pace hosted a celebration for our 35th Anniversary on October 15th at our headquarters in Fairfax Corner. The event was a cocktail reception where...

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Taking Agility in Government to a New Level

As most of you who operate in the Federal space are probably aware at this point, many Federal agencies are now utilizing Agile methods such...

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Potomac Forum: AGILE Development in Government Training

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CC Pace Awarded $5 Million Contract from Export-Import Bank of the United States

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Agile 2015: DevOps and Craftsmanship

In my last post, I talked about the interesting Agile 2015 sessions on team building that I’d attended. This time we’ll take a look at...

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Open that Window (Part 1)

As Agile Coaches, we help teams grow and mature. But there’s no how-to manual that tells us how to do that. So how do we...

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Development of your business strategy requires a long and hard look ahead to the future. Anticipating what the industry may look like, what your customer...

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CC Pace Celebrates 35 Years in Business!

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12 Principles of Agile – Part 3

Welcome to the final part of my 12 Principles series where we’ll cover the final 4 Agile Principles. (In case you missed it, here’s a link...

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1, 2 ,3 or 4….What’s the right number of teams for a Scrum Master?

“How much scrum would a Scrum Master master, If a Scrum Master could master scrum? He would master, he would, as much as he could,...

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CC Pace welcomes Greg Self to Financial Services Practice

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CC Pace’s 35th Anniversary – Part II

Today, join us for an inside look at CC Pace present day as we continue our three part blog series about our past, present and...

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Agile DC

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12 Principles of Agile – Part 2

Over the course of this three-part blog series, I will cover all of the 12 Principles. In this second installment I hope I’ve peeked your...

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Picture This….

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In previous installments in this series, I’ve talked about what Product Owners and development team members can do to ensure iteration closure. By iteration closure,...

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In January, I moved from Texas to North Carolina. When I was in Texas, I flew to client sites around the country. But the last...

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A colleague recently reached out for suggestions to help a new client whose teams are having trouble adapting to using story points. Here are 10...

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In a prior post, Getting Ready for Your Technical Transformation, I defined technical transformation and why it is so important. Now, I’d like to dive...

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PMI-ACP Bootcamp

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On January 28, CC Pace and the Potomac Forum collaborated once again to present their latest in the series, Agile Development in Government Training Workshops. ...

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A Healthy Start to the New Year

This is typically the time of year that everyone is recovering from the holidays, not only financially but physically. On average individuals can gain from...

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Product Demos – Not Just for the Customer Anymore? (Part 2)

In the first installment of this blog entry, we laid out a scenario which portrays an unhappy software development team. It has become obvious that...

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Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

During the last thirty three years CC Pace has served our clients in a wide range of business and technology projects. While clients generally bring...

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AFEI selects CC Pace’s Leslie Lowman to Speak on Agile Teams

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I like to attempt minor DIY projects around the house because 1) it saves money and, 2) it’s enjoyable to solve technical issues that don’t...

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Global SCRUM GATHERING®

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Telework and Modified Schedules – The Agile Impact

Agencies around the government are beginning to see more and more of their employees teleworking and going to modified work weeks. There are a number...

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As compliance costs continue to soar and product selection is limited to government-regulated Qualified Mortgages (QM), mortgage bankers have tightened their belts, forced to diet...

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CC Pace Announces Executive Speaking Engagements at Potomac Forum

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Cultural Patterns – Part 1

Recently I’ve been reflecting on cultural patterns I’ve seen in organizations throughout my career; how I experienced them, their impact, who thrived, who withered. Over...

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Resumé Writing Tips

Do you ever wonder what recruiters think when they receive and review your resume? At CC Pace we receive thousands of resumes each year. Some...

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Ron Jeffries recently posted an article on writing code for “The Diamond Problem” using TDD in response to an article by Alistair Cockburn on Thinking...

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A couple of years ago I started hearing more and more debate about whether the work to fix bugs that got past the customer’s acceptance...

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Blog

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CC Pace Contributes to Operation Gratitude

CC Pace employees recently participated in Operation Gratitude, a program where Halloween Candy, Dental Hygiene items and cards and letters are collected and care packages...

A wide variety of clients have trusted CC Pace over the years, from small non-profits to the Fortune 100. Here are a few examples: Financial...

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National Student Clearinghouse (NSC)

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The Shocking Truth About E-Mortgages

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Resources

Case Studies | Whitepapers | Additional Resources CC Pace places great emphasis on staying ahead of the curve in both business and technology. A strong research...

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Financial Services Resources

CC Pace consultants are at the intellectual forefront in several areas, including mortgage technology and business process redesign. Please explore some of our thought leadership....

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IT Staffing

High(er) Quality Resourcing Solutions CC Pace has a different approach to supporting your resource needs. We tailor the way that we work with your organization...

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Agile Transformation

Impactful Agile transformations change the way companies think, plan, and act. We know that ‘being Agile’ isn’t your goal; it’s just the pathway to realizing...

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We don’t take success for granted. We use agile techniques to make success happen. You may have heard that custom application development is risky, or that you...

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