Meeting with clients and stakeholders is an essential part of building quality software products. These meetings can occur as often as needed depending on the project and the methodology being used. However, it can be difficult to get the most out of these meetings. A lack of communication, unclear goals, and disorganization can all contributeRead more
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This past week I attended Dallas Tech Fest, one of the local conferences in Texas that focuses on multiple aspects of software development. The conference was held at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a really eclectic movie theater that served as a great venue. There were 15 presentations throughout the day presented by Improving, ThoughtWorks and Veredus.Read more
In the past you would develop a software system and as your business grew, you would upgrade it if the computer system running your software was having trouble keeping up; add memory, hard-drives, even processor cores. We call it scaling vertically, or scaling-up. Hardware companies would tout the scalability of their servers in terms ofRead more
Last week, we compared the difference between Agile and Waterfall methodologies for software development. At FrogSlayer, we prefer to use Agile to manage our projects. There are many different implementations of Agile, such as Scrum, Lean, or Kanban. Despite differences in these practices, most of them also have key commonalities including specific and compartmentalized rolesRead more
