Thoughts on Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm
To bridge the chasm between early and mainstream markets, Moore proposes a strategy he likens to establishing a beachhead: claim a place from which to expand your market share by first positioning your product in a niche market.
“We’re located between the bullet proof vests and the air conditioners”
March 13th 2009 | Jonathan Cogley & Dan Parker
Thycotic showcased its password management software at FOSE 2009 this week, the largest IT event for US Government. This is our second year attending the event and we’ve enjoyed demonstrating Secret Server to the various State and Federal government departments.
We’ve grown tremendously in the last year and [...]
A Developer’s Uphill Journey From Custom Development to Software Vendor – Part 3
You have to support everyone!” noted David Astle, a Secret Server developer, upon realizing the endless combinations of software and settings that our audience use. Limiting the supported configuration by setting certain system requirements may seem like a smart way to reduce quality assurance time, but it doesn’t really work.
A Developer’s Uphill Journey From Custom Development to Software Vendor – Part 2
Our approach was to focus on the pain that our product solves.By delivering the core pain-relieving features, we would have a product that was genuinely useful and could then be refined and tuned based on customer feedback. This strategy put our product in our customers’ hands quickly, solved a few of their main problems, and began generating a stream of feedback to then drive requirements for the next phase
A Developer’s Uphill Journey From Custom Development to Software Vendor
This is the typical world of the corporate developer-ugly applications with aggressive time lines, and very forgiving users. How well do these traits relate to the world of the software vendor marketing to the public at large?
Secret Server on the Treo 700
Secret Server has supported a “Mobile Edition” for over a year now but it is always tricky making sure that it works correctly on all devices.
Our approach was to bake mobile support into the base product (ASP.NET based) so it simply scales down to the capability of the device. That sounds simple but unfortunately [...]
A sign that you are no longer a startup.
Ok, so it is a really bad pun. It is tough writing blog post titles sometimes.
Anyway, we finally got a beautiful metallic official sign for our office after inhabiting our office space for almost two years. (Now if we could just do something about that door!).
In our first office suite in Vienna [...]
When you apply for a job, read the job posting!
I am constantly amazed by the number of job candidates who apply for a position without reading the job posting. We are currently hiring for three positions:
Agile .NET Developer
Agile .NET Developer Internship
Graphics Designer
All three involve *doing* something in order to be considered for the position – for the developer positions it requires completing [...]
Secret Server at FOSE 2008
We took the Secret Server booth to the FOSE 2008 Conference this week. FOSE is the largest IT event for US Government. It wasn’t really a very long trip for us … about 12 blocks east from our offices in Dupont Circle in Washington DC to the DC Convention Center.
This was a [...]
Learning from your Burn Down chart
The chart to the left represents the Burn Down chart for the Secret Server 4.1 release which shipped on March 14th 2008. We have always shipped Secret Server on the published date (or in the early hours of morning the next day!) but this release pushed things a little too close for our liking. [...]
Secret Server 4.1 goes live!
The team thinks it should be 5.0 since the new features were pretty huge! The full release notes are here. The new version includes role based security which allows you to slice and dice the access to various features across your organization. We also have a new feature that allows you to automatically [...]
What makes some code confusing?
Developers look at code for hour upon hour every day. After some years of doing this, you can just look at something and almost intuitively understand what it is doing – assuming that some effort has been made by the developers to keep the code clear and understandable. But every now and then, you find [...]
Secret Server 4.0 has shipped!
We were hoping to ship one day early but a few delays in getting some updated artwork and some of the upgrade documentation caused us to ship yesterday on the scheduled day. Secret Server has never missed a launch date since first being released in November 2005 – this is something we attribute to [...]
Do you have what it takes to be a Thycotic TDD Developer?
Thycotic is gearing up for a new product development cycle and we are looking to grow our team of passionate test-first developers. Our team is one of the best places to learn and improve your agile development skills.
Can you solve the problem below? http://www.thycotic.com/codetest.txt
Please submit your solution with your resume to tddjobs@thycotic.com
You willbe [...]
Shipping Software … Secret Server 3.1 Sneak Peek
Shipping software is one of the most exciting times for a development team but this new release is easily the most anticipated version of Secret Server to date by our customers. Secret Server 3.1 will feature the two most requested features from customers who visited our booth at TechEd in June 2007: full Active Directory [...]
Some photos from TechEd 2007
Kevin has posted some of our photos from TechEd 2007.
My personal favorite was the Secret Server remote office at the Orlando airport bar – 4 geeks all with laptops!
TechEdwas very different for me this year since it was my first experience as an exhibitor and not an attendee (I didn’t attend a single [...]
Still putting your passwords in Excel?
There is a better way. Stop by the Secret Server booth at TechEd (booth #946) to see our latest version – Secret Server 3.0. If you are not at the show, you can try out a free hosted version here or download it here. (more info here)
Secret Server is a central web-based repository for you [...]
Arrived at Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando, FL and first shot of the Secret Server 3.0 booth
We arrived in sunny Orlando this morning after meeting at Reagan Airport around 5am – needless to say that everyone was a little tired but there was definitely excitement in the air. We were greeted by the sign for TechEd right in the Orlando airport … nice touch.
Thycotic has a good showing at TechEd this [...]
Non-Technology Thinking
Synchronized, sealed, variable, interface and even tool. These words all conjure up very specific things in the mind of a programmer or IT person. Much to my surprise they hold very different meanings for non-technology people – well at least the word “tool”. This last week, I was invited to attend a meeting of [...]
Secret Server goes to Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando
This will be the first year that Thycotic has a vendor booth at Microsoft TechEd. This is an exciting milestone for the company and we are busy with preparations for the conference. There will be four of us from the team going -the flights and hotels are booked. Dan Parker and I will be [...]
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