Platforms that work, but are expensive to change
Enterprise CMS and digital platforms that are stable and technically correct, but slow, fragile, and
Typical symptoms:
- Small changes take weeks instead of days
- High coordination overhead across teams and vendors
- Improvements feel risky and unpredictable
What’s really wrong:
- Architecture optimized for initial delivery, not long-term change
- Architects disengaged after design
- Heavy reliance on offshore and fragmented delivery teams
How we address it:
- Small, senior delivery teams focused on outcomes
- Architects remain involved throughout delivery
- Reduced handovers and minimized offshore dependency
- Clear technical ownership from design through implementation
What this leads to:
- Lower cost of change
- Faster, more predictable delivery
- Platforms that can evolve without constant rework
Cloud platforms built with on-prem thinking
Enterprise teams migrate platforms to the cloud, but continue working as if nothing changed.
Typical symptoms:
- Higher infrastructure costs with limited benefits
- Slow delivery despite “cloud” platforms
- Fragile deployments and manual operations
- Monolithic systems that block independent evolution
What’s really wrong:
- Cloud treated as a hosting change, not an architectural shift
- Monoliths moved to the cloud without selective decoupling
- Delivery models and ownership unchanged after migration
How we address it:
- Selective decoupling of monolithic platforms where it creates leverage
- Redefining platform boundaries aligned with team ownership
- Introducing automation and cloud-native delivery workflows
- Keeping architects involved beyond migration to guide evolution
What this leads to:
- Cloud platforms that actually reduce friction
- Independent evolution of critical capabilities
- Lower operational risk and long-term cost
Frontends that hurt performance and SEO
Modern frontend stacks introduced to increase speed and flexibility, but end up doing the opposite.
Typical symptoms:
- Poor Core Web Vitals and declining search visibility
- Content-heavy pages rendered primarily on the client
- Long load times and delayed interactivity
- Performance fixes that add complexity but don’t last
What’s really wrong:
- Rendering and delivery strategies chosen without considering content and SEO requirements
- Client-side rendering used where server-side or static rendering is more appropriate
- Frontend decisions made in isolation from CMS, caching, and delivery layers
How we address it:
- Selecting rendering models based on content type, performance, and SEO goals
- Applying server-side or static rendering where it creates measurable impact
- Aligning frontend architecture with CMS responsibilities and caching strategies
- Maintaining architectural ownership across frontend and backend
What this leads to:
- Faster, more predictable performance and stable SEO
- Clear separation of responsibilities between frontend, CMS, and delivery layers
- Decoupling that simplifies evolution instead of degrading performance
Delivery without clear ownership
Enterprise platforms are often designed by one group, delivered by another, and operated by a third.
Typical symptoms:
- Architecture that looks good on paper but fails in delivery
- Slow feedback loops and unclear responsibility
- Repeated rework and growing technical debt
- Coordination overhead across vendors and offshore teams
What’s really wrong:
- No single technical owner across design, delivery, and operation
- Architects disengaged after design phases
- Performance issues diagnosed without visibility and system-level monitoring
- Delivery models optimized for cost and throughput, not ownership and outcomes
How we address it:
- Establishing clear technical ownership from design through delivery
- Keeping architects actively involved during implementation
- Working with small, senior teams and reducing unnecessary handovers
- Limiting offshore dependency where it undermines ownership and delivery quality
What this leads to:
- Decisions that survive delivery and operation
- Faster feedback and fewer surprises
- Platforms that evolve predictably over time