Trendy ideas on how to boost your Software Development cycles and detect opportunity areas.
Agile
In the race to achieve agility, many software developer teams face obstacles during their daily work. Catapult Labs is committed to helping remote and hybrid teams embrace Agile methodologies effortlessly. Our mission is to simplify the hosting of crucial agile ceremonies like Scrum Poker and Retrospectives, integrating them into existing
Agile
In software development, time is a central concept, and delivering value as early as possible is a primary driver for the industry. Teams build products to save users precious time, and these tools are made in a prioritized fashion, mitigating waste. Even though many teams use Agile frameworks to successfully
Agile
With the growing trend of agile frameworks adoption among companies, one topic that draws more attention from beginners is how to properly conduct an Agile Retrospective. These sessions are a really effective way for teams to develop a continuous improvement approach that enables them to build better products and services.
Remote Work
By Chatty Garrate. Follow her on Twitter. Remote-Workforce: A Trump Card or a Hindrance?###### Remote work has been around even before the world was hit by the pandemic. It has provided countless professionals—including those who belong to the IT sector a flexible alternative to earn money while concentrating on
Agile
The SoftwareDevTools team considers Retrospectives so valuable that not only do we run them frequently, we have also developed a tool that makes it really easy to perform them. And there is also a whole section dedicated to them in this blog. You can say we are really into reviewing
Software Development
According to Google data, the query 'I hate daily scrums' gets several monthly searches. Even if few people look for that, you can sense a similar feeling in digital communities, where not-so-nice posts and hilarious memes pop up once every now and then… And we totally get it.
Atlassian
A while ago, Atlassian published a blog post under the title 4 Confluence add-ons to take your team’s collaboration to the next level.. We consider it to be helpful advice, specially for those teams who crave for more unified and better aligned workflows among teams. Confluence may be really
Agile
Estimating how much effort a task will take to be completed can be tricky. It gets near to impossible in the context of an innovation project where brand new features are built from scratch. That might be the reason for teams that skip estimation sessions in favor of doing some
Agile
In our article The Perks of Being a Scrum Master - Developing soft skills and preventing anti-patterns, we stated how relevant the Scrum Master figure has become for the global market in the last 10 years. That trend relates to the fact that more and more companies want to be
Agile Retrospectives
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively implement its outcomes. Retrospectives purpose, in a high-level sense, is to “plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”, as stated on Scrum.org, and
Productivity
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that come from a team member not knowing the status of another's work. Transparency helps to avoid these work bottlenecks and
Productivity
The importance of collaboration in your enterprise, shouldn’t be news to you. Even though IT has multiple sub-functions, and knowledge and teams are divided by specialties; in modern ITSM work is not divided into silos. Focusing on the end-to-end flow of work and the value that’s delivered to
Customer Support
Now your customer support team can access relevant customer data. At SoftwareDevTools we believe that collaboration is part of the digital transformation in all organizations. But collaboration is not an easy task. There are a lot of systems and platforms that do not “talk to each other” and many of
Agile
SoftwareDevTools publishes #AgileTalks. A series of video interviews with Agilistas worldwide. We discuss several topics that are of interest for Agile methodologies practitioners. On one of our latest conversations, we had the chance to sit down with Reese Schmit to discuss the importance of Agile communities. Reese is an Agile
Software Development
If you work in the software industry, chances are you’ve been to at least one hackathon. As part of a team dedicated to building software apps for the Atlassian, Freshdesk and Slack marketplaces, I’ve helped organize a fair share of them. Often times teams stick to an initial
Atlassian
I'm Juventino Romero, full stack Node.js developer at Nearsoft's SoftwareDevTools team. We've recently attended the Pitney Bowes' Small and Medium Business Challenge, a product and application development hackathon for small and medium business (SMBs) focused applications and solutions held at San José,