Insights

Explore the latest insights, ideas, and perspectives from Trility's team.

Buy Yourself Into The Future

Matthew D Edwards hired someone who had already been where he wanted to go and it saved him five to ten years on the learning journey.

Delivering What People Want

Book Matthew D Edwards to present on how transparent communication and iteration loops can enable teams to deliver what people want.

A Data & Insights Focused Partnership Measured by Client Value

Midwest-based consultants, Previsant and Trility, identified complementary areas of expertise and are partnering to better serve clients at every stage of their data journey.

Secure, Scale Your Azure Adventure

Schedule a whiteboard session or presentation to position your company and team to create a secure, scalable path forward using Azure and Azure DevOps.

Automation that Every Enterprise Azure Cloud Platform Needs

A guidebook for automation gives technology teams just-in-time provisioning of landing zones to deploy to Azure in a responsive, consistent, secure and scalable way.

Calculate DevOps Savings When Manual Work is Eliminated

Demonstrate the ROI of automating how Azure environments are configured across the enterprise with our downloadable infographic.

Inc. 5000 Recognizes Trility for Second Time as Fastest-Growing Co.

Inc. Magazine reveals that Trility Consulting® claimed a spot on its list of America’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies.

An Industry-Leading Claims Management Solution Leverages Artificial Intelligence

ITA Group expands its channel sales claims functionality to a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) enabled solution. With industry-leading scanning and validation capabilities, this enhanced solution measurably reduces claims-processing costs and simplifies how users submit and manage claims.

Annexus Retirement Solutions Named a “Wealthies” Finalist

Trility's work with Annexus Retirement Solutions was named a “Wealthies” finalist in the 2023 Wealth Management Awards.

Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership with DevOps Practices

Organizations can greatly reduce technology spend by leveraging DevOps practices that automate work with CI/CD pipelines written with Everything as Code (EaC).

Revolutionizing Retirement Income Solutions

Annexus Retirement Solutions is redefining retirement income with its patent-pending Lifetime Income Builder, designed to deliver better participant outcomes.

Upcoming April Events in the Midwest

Trility is honored to sponsor Connectaha and the .NET User Group in Omaha, Neb., and the Gateway to Innovation Symposium in St. Louis, Mo.

Channel Partnerships: New Role to Drive Client Value

Trility creates a new role focused on maximizing service and product partnerships to seek out entities that align to deliver client value.

Shaun Lavish Joins Team to Support Kansas City Market

Shaun Lavish transitions to helping clients modernize through cloud services as he helps Trility grow the market in Kansas City, Missouri.

NeuroFuel: A Case Study

Learn how we helped collegiate volleyball coaches build a first-of-its-kind mental training app to help players succeed through the pandemic and beyond.

Nick Starck to Lead the Next Chapter of Client Success

Some lessons must be lived to be understood. Nick Starck has intentionally learned many.

Aligning for Growth

Trility Consulting® launches a new website to better support future growth while acknowledging its journey since first opening its doors.

Curiosity as a Basis for Solving Problems

Our newest Director of Business Development located in St. Louis, Kevin Kozlowski, practices curiosity over judgment to lend a helping hand.

The Long Way Around the Barn

This podcast discusses industry challenges, goals, and available options to accomplish desired outcomes in today’s technology landscape including adoption, complexity, security, and privacy.

Assessing Viability of a Technology Initiative

A collaborative framework to assess your technology project or initiative's health in order to reduce risk and maximize value.

An Engineer's Journey to SAFe

Dean Leffingwell, the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), discusses what it means to develop and invest in the agile framework.

Part VI: How Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto Makes You Better at Barbecue

Guest Derek Lane deconstructs the final two principles of the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

Part V: How Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto Makes You Better at Barbecue

Guest Derek Lane deconstructs principles 7-10 of the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

A Passion for Research and Strategy to Drive Content Marketing

Claire Damon’s new role is focused on supporting existing strategies and expanding efforts that increase brand awareness for Trility Consulting®.

Part IV: How Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto Makes You Better at Barbecue

Guest Derek Lane deconstructs principles 3-6 of the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

Part III: How Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto Makes You Better at Barbecue

Guest Derek Lane deconstructs the first two principles of the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

Part II: Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto to Make Better Barbecue

Guest Derek Lane deconstructs the four value pairs of the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

Part I: Deconstructing the Agile Manifesto to Make Better Barbecue

In the first episode of this series, Guest Derek Lane deconstructs the Agile Manifesto and applies its lessons to making better barbecue.

Podcast: Unlimited Agility

Derek Lane is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Agile Manifesto by building a community for like-minded individuals.

Distill What You See Into Action

Use this battle-tested Assessment Framework to eliminate the noise when you need to determine a project's health and risk.

People Operations Focuses on Bringing Even More Value to Team Members

Trility's growth leads to building out the People Operations team with two promotions and a new hire.

Part III: Bridging the Gap Between the Art and Science of Data Analytics

In the final episode of this three-part series, Jacey Heuer returns to discuss how both a scientific and artful approach is needed for data science.

Trility Consulting Joins Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List

Inc. magazine reveals that Trility Consulting® is No. 2953 on its annual list of private companies achieving 131% financial growth in three years.

Part II: The Artistry Required for Data Science Wins

In the second episode of this three-part series, Jacey Heuer shares how individuals can successfully advance how data is used across all areas of business.

Never Leave ‘Em Guessing

Building trust ensures your clients and teammates are never left guessing. Our newest colleague values transparency to ensure clients achieve desired outcomes.

Part I: Vulnerable Storytelling to Advance Data Science

Data science success is more than just being good at math, logic, and algorithms. Jacey Heuer shares what's helped him succeed in this evolving field.

Podcast: A True Process for Leading

Todd Dunsirn reflects on his journey building True Process, a software engineering company known for integrating biomedical devices and capturing clinical data.

A History of Making Life Easier

Our new Solutions Director has a history of solving problems contextually – making him an ideal collaborator for clients and project teams.

Podcast: The Makings of a Great Agile Coach

Damon Poole shares how agile coaching helps teams move faster and defines the qualities great coaches embody.

Of Jellybeans and Elephants

Break down how your team delivers software and successfully invite and manage change.

Terraform Managed AMIs With Packer

Maintain current AWS AMIs based on source AMI and userdata updates and customize the rebuild using HashiCorp's Packer and Terraform.

How To Know If You're Adding Value

To bring value to a project or your team, set aside your predispositions to listen, learn, and discover what they need and where they believe they need to go.

Podcast: Future Proof End-to-End Encryption and Data Security

Paul Clayson shares how AgilePQ is solving an insurmountable problem in our collective future with encryption software for all IoT devices – no matter the size.

AWS Multi-Account, Multi-Region Networking with Terraform

Learn how to manage multiple AWS accounts with resources spread across multiple regions in a simple, cost-effective way using Terraform.

Vault Enterprise: Aligning the solution for security, scalability

Leverage HashiCorp’s Vault Enterprise for complex requests and classifications of secrets with a standalone, automated continuous delivery pipeline.

Policy as Code: Automate Cloud Security Governance with Sentinel

Make policies perform like an application with version control and automated tests with a Policy as Code framework.

Why I Started Using and Recommending Terraform

When one of our Fortune 500 clients asked Will Rubel why they should use Terraform over other similar solutions, he wrote this article to answer their question.

Podcast: Success in Tech Entrepreneurship is One Tap Away

Tech entrepreneur Jesse O’Neill-Oine reflects on what he’s learned on his journey of solving problems with Connected Things using a security-first mindset.

Part VI: Providing the Right Care at the Right Time with In Motion Care

Learn how In Motion Care is tackling the challenges of additional 34 million baby boomers retiring in 2025 leveraging technology.

Build Lasting Solutions for Customers & Internal Teams

Create a repeatable, secured payment widget solution with resolved latency issues, streamlined deployments, and improved monitoring with Terraform.

Part V: The Pursuit of Humane Technology in Health Care

The President of the Iowa Health Care Association shares how humane technology can improve care and increase interaction with patients and family members.

Part IV: Enabling Home Care Services with Technology

The President of The HomeCare Advocacy Network discusses how technology plays a role in empowering seniors to age in their homes.

Part III: The Future of Technology in Home Care Services

CEO of Home Instead Senior Care shares how the traditional business model must adapt and evolve in the face of three megatrends in the senior care industry.

Increase Market Share with Critical Software Enhancements

Trility helped this client transition from an existing vendor while providing software enhancements and a demo environment to increase market share.

Build, Bundle, and Deploy Operations into Secured Pipeline

Build an evolving build pipeline ecosystem where 100 percent of the infrastructure, systems, and applications are deployed using AWS CloudFormation and Jenkins.

Automate Secured Deployments of Resources with CloudFormation

Trility helped implement a 100 percent software-defined infrastructure and operations into a build, bundle, deploy pipeline pattern for an enterprise solution.

Part II: Information Security and Privacy Plans that Matter

Rebecca Herold and Nathan Gibson explore the role and value of information security and privacy plans in the health care and senior living industries.

Part I: IoT Devices, Data, and Exploitation

In this series, our guests address critical factors when purchasing monitoring devices, securely storing, moving, and using the collected data that is exponentially accumulating, and how to mitigate the exploitation of these systems.

Trility joins HashiCorp Systems Integrator Partner Program

Trility clients achieve automated infrastructure with an agnostic approach as a Systems Integrator Partner with HashiCorp.

Centralized Automated Vault Solution

Delivering a reliable outcome for role-based access with automated rotating credentials and achieving 99.995% availability.

How to Truly Transform Your Business with Cloud Computing

What I’ve learned about moving your business to the cloud in the past 12 months and how I know I’ve only scratched the surface.

My Cheat Sheet for Understanding the Benefits of Cloud Computing

To take full advantage of the cloud, you first have to understand its benefits as described by a marketer.

Part II and III: Exploring Human-Centric Transformation

An infographic from Part II and III of a podcast series that provides key actions for designing everything around the human experience and moving to a simple flow-based experience.

Part I: Exploring Human-Centric Transformation

Highlights from a podcast series on how to address transformation aimed at simplifying and automating processes for team members, stakeholders, and customers.

AWS Multi-Account, Multi-Region Networking with Terraform

Learn how to manage multiple AWS accounts with resources spread across multiple regions in a simple, cost-effective way using Terraform.

Trility’s Move Supports Continued Growth in Modern, Dynamic Space

Trility’s leadership started the search last fall and found their new home inside NCMIC’s modern, dynamic headquarters in Clive, Iowa.

Set and Manage Expectations Or Work Hard and Fail Anyway

Contracts and brand reputation do not guarantee success. Success is wholly dependent upon active, intentional communication and listening.

Filter the Noise. Communicate and Listen Intentionally.

Like so many things in our personal and professional lives, success comes down to being intentional.

Spend (And Enablement) Must Be Intentional

When change is intentional, desired outcomes have the highest probability of being realized.

Approaches to Leadership: Hurricanes, Wakes, Ripples and Deserts

How leaders foster desired changes characterizes their reputation as an effective leader.

A Basis for Automation, Part 2: Inclusive Continuous Delivery

In Part II, learn the steps to ensure an inclusive project delivery addresses requirements and prioritizes backlog before automation.

Remote Work Maturity Model: Where is Your Company During Coronavirus Pandemic?

Need sound advice? We are offering “free-of-charge” conversations to help navigate timely decisions.

Maintaining Business Continuity Amid Epidemic Response

The Internet is full of noise due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Big problems need to be solved, and they can’t all be Googled. Reach out to any Trility team members for sound advice.

Part IV: Complex Practical Examples of DevOps Unit Testing

Extensive example using kitchen-Terraform and Terraform-compliance to deploy AWS resources.

Part III: Practical Examples of DevOps Unit Testing

Example unit test for a Terraform project that creates a simple S3 bucket in AWS to address public cloud storage.

Part II: Cloud Breaches Prove DevOps Needs Dedicated Testers

As infrastructure-as-code becomes the norm, unit-testing and integration testing will become more common.

Part I: Does DevOps Need Dedicated Testers?

A software testing strategy to ensure infrastructure changes do not break the development environment.

A Basis for Automation: Predictable, Repeatable, Auditable Workflow

To consider automation, we have to first understand the work. Otherwise, we are just taking bad things and making them go faster.

Defining Key Attributes of Exceptional Delivery Managers

How to find Delivery Managers who predictably and repeatably deliver value.

Gerard Forbes Joins Team

Gerard Forbes has joined the Trility team as Director of Business Development in Omaha, Neb.

Information Security Can't Rely on Pinky Swears

No one in your organization gets to be clueless about information security.

Leadership In Absentia

Ensure people are empowered to grow, learn, and care about successful outcomes when pursuing innovative digital transformation.

Honoring those who understand “true requirements” of service

Trility closes its offices on Veterans Day to honor the veterans on our team.

Ways To Die While Scuba Diving

Business leaders and divers both require continuous data, preparation, situational awareness, emotional maturity, and a willingness to adapt to ensure they (and the company) survive.

Real-Time Data Decisions in 7-Steps

A step-by-step roadmap for taking control of your data, securing it, and making it meaningful to everyone at the same time, in the same way.

Recalculating My Route…

Our new Chief Strategy Officer shares "why" he chose to join the Trility team.

A Repeatable, Custom Solution for CCPA

This video breaks down the business problem CCPA presents and outlines a solution approach to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Connecting the Physical World to Your Business

Leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to securely connect to the ever-growing network of devices.

Four Things Cloud Service Providers Won’t Tell You that Could Be Costing You Money

Cloud adoption requires adopting a new mindset to provide a return on investment.

Go For The Win

Without a clear goal in mind, the "fail fast, fail often" mantra may NOT lead to a win in the world of digital transformation.

Welcome Rhonda to the Team!

Rhonda O'Connor joins Trility Consulting as Director of Marketing where she'll lead and execute marketing strategies.

Welcome Kori to the Team!

Kori (Long) Danner joins Trility Consulting as Talent Delivery Lead where she will develop talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans to ensure growth.

Welcome Cari to the Team!

Trility Consulting hires Cari Thompson as Director of Business Development for the Des Moines and Iowa market!

FIRST Robotics and Giving Back

Trility sponsors West Central Valley High School's Robotics Team 4646 as they head to a competition.

Growth Requires a Plan

Working hard and being busy is not a plan. Companies and individuals need clear objectives and outcomes to achieve growth in a predictable manner.

Pack Line Cloud Security

Cloud Security is everyone's responsibility and requires an aggressive defense.

Did You Mean DevOps or DevOps?

Depending on who you ask, DevOps is a suite of tools, a team of individuals, or a new corporate culture.

Don’t Forget the “V” in MVP

In the race to MVP, security, operational readiness, reproducibility, and scalability must validate the viability of a product to truly win.

Compressing Time-to-Value Requires Understanding What’s Valuable

Knowing the cost of all the things in a software delivery chain doesn't mean you've provided value to the customer.

ShowPal Launches Another Product

Learn how Trility helped a new Iowa-based startup with its product that shows a home without an agent or homeowner.

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