# sketchdev.io

> AI-optimized mirror of sketchdev.io containing 50 pages totalling 31,928 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://sketchdev.io/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T00:46:38.962Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Homepage

- [site-root.html](/content/site-root.html) (1 words)

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [about-us/index.html](/content/about-us/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/cross-regional-data-backups-on-aws/index.html](/content/blog/cross-regional-data-backups-on-aws/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/product-thinking/index.html](/content/blog/product-thinking/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/be-a-product-manager/index.html](/content/blog/be-a-product-manager/index.html) (1 words)
- [When, Where, and How to Apply DevOps Automation (tl;dr Everywhere)](/content/blog/when-where-and-how-to-apply-devops-automation-tldr-everywhere.html): Here's how your company can leverage DevOps automation to streamline software development by eliminating dozens of steps that usually take hours of work. (1,784 words)
- [blog/agentic-ai-implementation-guide/index.html](/content/blog/agentic-ai-implementation-guide/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/build-ai-agents-without-coding/index.html](/content/blog/build-ai-agents-without-coding/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/jira-product-discovery-setup-guide/index.html](/content/blog/jira-product-discovery-setup-guide/index.html) (1 words)
- [blog/best-terraform-alternatives/index.html](/content/blog/best-terraform-alternatives/index.html) (1 words)
- [privacy-policy/index.html](/content/privacy-policy/index.html) (1 words)
- [Cut Your Cloud Bill by 30% (Without Learning to Code)](/content/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-guide-non-technical-leaders.html): Learn how to reduce cloud spending by 30% without technical expertise. You can use these practical strategies to get the cloud bill back under control. (1,384 words)
- [Exploring the Advantages of Agile Software Development](/content/blog/buying-from-an-agile-development-shop-heres-what-to-expect-0.html): Need developers? Considering buying development hours from an agile shop? Read this first so you know what to expect. (1,144 words)
- [Top Agile Metrics to Measure](/content/blog/agile-metrics/index.html): Metrics that I Love blog post by Steph Weisenbach (1,378 words)
- [blog/digital-transformation/index.html](/content/blog/digital-transformation/index.html) (1 words)
- [Building a mobile app for a Fortune 500 chemical company](/content/fortune-500-mobile-app/index.html): A Fortune 500 company needed a mobile app to help its partners complete more sales without leaving the end customer's side. Sketch delivered it quickly. (793 words)
- [Case studies](/content/case-studies/index.html): We've served startups, SMBs, and the Fortune 100. Here's a little bit of what we've learned. Don't miss our AI case studies for real-world examples! (545 words)
- [Choosing the Right AI Consulting Partner](/content/blog/choosing-ai-consulting-services/index.html): Learn how to choose the right AI consulting services for your business. Identify key considerations, then evaluate 5+ of the top AI consulting firms. (1,840 words)
- [The Top 4 Skills Leaders Need for the Post-Pandemic Workforce](/content/blog/top-4-leader-skills-now-covid/index.html): As the single most disruptive event in modern history unfolds around us, we have some predictions about what effective leadership tomorrow should do. (1,455 words)
- [Buying from an Agile Development Shop: Here’s What to Expect](/content/blog/buying-from-an-agile-development-shop-heres-what-to-expect.html): Meta: Need developers? Considering buying development hours from an agile shop? Read this first so you know what to expect. (1,536 words)
- [Product Manager vs. Product Owner: The Hows and Whys of Both](/content/blog/product-manager-vs-product-owner-the-hows-and-whys-of-both.html): Productive teams know just how to put the right people in the right roles. Let this blog be your guide to learning the hows and whys of the product roles. (1,225 words)
- [9 Ways Product Ownership Can Go Wrong—and What to Do About It](/content/blog/9-ways-product-ownership-can-go-wrong-and-what-to-do-about-it.html): If there’s one role in agile frameworks that is the most misunderstood, it’s the role of product owner. Read here to learn why. (1,179 words)
- [Enterprise mobile app launched in only three months](/content/new-app-launched-fast/index.html): The client was stalled, and needed their new app launched as soon as possible. They worked with Sketch to deliver a successful mobile app in only 3 months. (833 words)
- [How AI Changes Software Development: A Real-World Workflow Study](/content/blog/ai-developer-workflow/index.html): Discover how AI tools like Cursor transform software development workflows, and learn practical strategies for AI-powered coding. (1,404 words)
- [What Are User Stories and How Not to Write Them](/content/blog/what-are-user-stories-and-how-not-to-write-them/index.html): Not that long ago, I was conducting an Agile Bootcamp and one of the attendees piped up when she saw that user stories were on the agenda. (1,199 words)
- [The Case for Simplicity at Work](/content/blog/simplicity-at-work/index.html):  “Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential.” (1,422 words)
- [Should I Stay or Should I Go?](/content/blog/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/index.html): There has recently been some debate internally regarding team stability in terms of how long a given team should remain together. (647 words)
- [Jira vs JPD: Set up work routing for cross-team handoffs](/content/blog/how-to-set-up-jira-work-routing-automation/index.html): Learn two ways to route work items between teams in Jira. Step-by-step walkthrough covers Jira automation and Jira Product Discovery, with real examples. (1,185 words)
- [Keynote Speaking Engagements](/content/krewson-speaking/index.html): John Krewson is a tech CEO, former SNL actor, and public speaker. He teaches business leaders how to optimize people, process, and teams, from agile to AI. (647 words)
- [Insurance enterprise optimizes cloud for speed and performance](/content/cloud-optimization-example/index.html): Sketch helped an insurance enterprise process 12.5 billion records in 43 minutes for $7.69 with serverless AWS technology, down from $7,700 and 12+ hours. (1,078 words)
- [How to Write a Good Code Review (for New Developers)](/content/blog/how-to-write-a-good-code-review-for-new-software-developers.html): Code reviews can be intimidating for new software developers. This practical guide will help junior developers contribute more to the review process. (713 words)
- [Sketch and AWS](/content/aws-cloud-solutions/index.html): Trust an AWS Partner to build and deploy secure, scalable, cost-effective, cloud-native software using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD methodologies. (589 words)
- [Greenfield platform created to aggregate data for realtime decision making](/content/data-aggregation-realtime-decision-making/index.html): A client needed to achieve rapid data aggregation for a real-time decision-making platform. Now they have a single source for meaningful data insights. (470 words)
- [Cloud consulting services](/content/cloud-management/index.html): Sketch is an elite-level AWS partner in St. Louis, MO. We offer cloud services including migrations, management, and cloud cost optimization. (357 words)
- [What a Cat Taught Me About Cloud Infrastructure](/content/blog/what-a-cat-taught-me-about-cloud-infrastructure/index.html): Here's why servers in on-prem data centers are treated like “pets”, but your cloud servers are nameless resources that you rent on-demand “cattle”.  (851 words)
- [Cybersecurity company creates new platform](/content/cybersecurity-platform-creation/index.html): A cybersecurity company had outgrown its old, no-code platform, so they contacted Sketch for enterprise app modernization with custom code. (669 words)
- [9 Tips for Remote Work](/content/blog/remote-work-tips/index.html): The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many workers out of an office environment and into a virtual work-from-home arrangement. This is not a simple adjustment! (725 words)
- [Is it an execution? Or an evolution?](/content/blog/is-it-an-execution-or-an-evolution/index.html): Software delivery failure is typically not a failure of execution. It’s usually a failure to adapt to changing circumstances. (409 words)
- [What are you missing?](/content/blog/what-are-you-missing/index.html): Reflect on your retros. Do you decide on action and follow up on that agreed upon action? Start there. (379 words)
- [Through cloud co-engineering, Sketch helps healthcare enterprise get more value from AWS](/content/cloud-co-engineering-healthcare/index.html): A healthcare company client hired for cloud co-engineering services to ensure a smooth DevOps transition to the AWS cloud. (612 words)
- [Custom AI tools for banks](/content/loan-underwriting-ai-agent/index.html): Watch the demo: Southern Bank of Tennessee uses an AI agent for loan underwriting to produce loan narratives 8x faster (and more consistently, too). (514 words)
- [Top 10 Things That Kill Developer Productivity](/content/blog/top-10-things-that-kill-developer-productivity/index.html): This week’s Sketch Top Ten explores developer productivity. Why can’t we just get that feature out the door already? Here are ten reasons why... (399 words)
- [Are you a Servant Leader?](/content/blog/are-you-a-servant-leader/index.html): Transforming any business is difficult. Transforming a government bureaucracy is almost impossible. (518 words)
- [Webinar: Optimize cloud security, speed, and savings with Infrastructure as Code](/content/infrastructure-as-code-webinar-security-speed-savings.html): Sketch Coaches Ryan Jensen and Matt House lead an informed discussion about how you can save time, money, and peace of mind with Infrastructure-as-Code.  (423 words)
- [Electronic Tools – Friend or Foe?](/content/blog/electronic-tools-friend-or-foe/index.html): There is a plethora of electronic tools available to help manage an Agile team’s product and project work items. (415 words)
- [Is it a team? Or is it a club?](/content/blog/is-it-a-team-or-is-it-a-club/index.html): This week’s Weekly Inspection takes a look at team structure. Teams are the atomic unit of value in an agile environment. (373 words)
- [AI Coding Shortcuts for Software Development](/content/blog/ai-coding-shortcuts/index.html): AI is allowing us to write code faster and deliver products sooner. Here are the top shortcuts you should know to get even more from your AI coding tools. (182 words)
- [Sketch Blog](/content/blog/index.html): Here are a few of the things we've learned throughout our years of providing software development services for the Fortune 500, SMBs, and startups. (167 words)
- [10 Things You Could Do When You’re Done Writing Code](/content/blog/10-things-you-could-do-when-youre-done-writing-code.html): Before you start working on something outside the plan, have a look at this list and consider doing one or more of these when you're done writing code. (314 words)
- [Webinar: Accelerate product delivery with CI/CD](/content/cicd-webinar/index.html): Watch the on-demand webinar to learn how to deliver software faster with CI/CD. This is must-know information for product leaders and IT executives. (160 words)

## Resources

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