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Tech industry leaders share easy-to-implement but effective initiatives that you can use to boost your tech team's productivity.
When the business requires a pace of development that outstrips the capacity or know-how of internal resources, it can be a challenge to rapidly spin up a new team fast enough.
In this article, we explore some of the common questions our clients ask regarding what it’s like to work with an agile software development partner using a Scrum framework.
Learn how to combine customer satisfaction and agility to increase your software innovation return on investment.

In this post, we will walk you step by step through the process of Software Development Estimating, explaining how to use our template to create an estimate.
Updating legacy systems can be a cumbersome process. Consider these tips before diving head-first into your next upgrade.
Technology has been moving along at a rapid pace for years, but there are only a handful of game-changing innovations that you need to pay attention to. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them.
Building contractors that clear the highest margins time after time and maintain the greatest reputations have learned to recruit and entrust qualified partners and subcontractors when it makes sense. The same is true in software development.
Can legacy applications take advantage of all the cloud has to offer? Or will they be stuck in a less-than-ideal “lift and shift” scenario, where applications are re-hosted in the cloud, but take advantage of only a fraction of its benefits?
Ascendle CEO Dave Todaro gives his suggestion on how to maintain the same cadence at work while some team members take their vacation.
In spite of the time we all spend on our computers these days, mobile app usage is overtaking the desktop. With this trend comes a challenge: how can your developers come up to speed fast enough?
Choosing a mobile app development team is a big decision for your company. A good decision can lead to the results you want: finished apps and features.
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Find me on: LinkedIn For those not familiar with agile development and Scrum, a ScrumMaster may sound like a new term for project manager. Those familiar with [...]
User Stories are one of the most important parts of agile development. Yes, user stories replace those traditional requirements and specifications docs. But they do it in such [...]
Nothing is quite as frustrating as putting all your time and effort into an agile transformation and not achieving the expected results. You wanted more management of changing priorities, more project visibility, more team [...]
If only it could be that easy. But, like an actual rocket firing off into space, there is far more preparation to a successful agile launch than anyone [...]
Deciding to embrace an agile process is one thing. Redirecting and refocusing your organization to implement and accept it is quite another.
Want to add a new software feature into an old product? Without redesigning or rebuilding it? You can do that easily… with Scrum. And, yes, you can do [...]


















