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Some software applications are for supporting your business. Like the internal apps employees use to request time off, or collaborate remotely on a project. And some applications, of [...]
You’re probably aware: there’s a pretty big failure rate on mobile development projects out there. But did you know how big? IBM does. In their recent report, Star qualities: [...]
Find me on: LinkedIn Twitter So you want to contract out your mobile app development. And you don’t think your CTO is going to like it. How do you [...]
Some mobile app developers will do their best to steer you to one platform or another. They’ll saddle up iOS or Android for you. They’ll tell you [...]
There was a time when outsourcing meant sending jobs overseas. It still does, in many cases. But more and more, U.S. companies are looking at outsourcing not [...]
Those are some pretty strong words. So I’ll ask the CEO, “Why do you suspect that? What are you seeing?” And I’ll hear things like: The software development [...]
You feel like you’re doing everything right.You know your mobile app development needs to be Agile, and you’re behind it 100%. You’ve put your project manager through ScrumMaster [...]
You’ve done this before … hired outside app developers to build your software. But it didn’t go so well. And now you have to do it again. [...]
There is an old cliche in business: You're either growing or you are dying, there ain’t no in between. Given the mind-bending pace of innovation in the technology sector it can [...]
Learn techniques you can immediately apply to your projects to estimate how fast your team will go, both before they start and as they're getting ramped up.
Last week on TheAtlantic.com, Ian Bogost published an article titled Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers. In his article Mr. Bogost argues that those who are writing software applications shouldn’t claim to be [...]
Years ago I struggled with a dilemma: should I sit down to figure out how long it will take to create the software product, or just start writing [...]













