5 Ways to Unlock the Agile Mindset
Business as usual isn’t good enough for organizations in the digital age. In today’s world, a slight change in the existing business ecosystem can have massive repercussions for the people, processes, and technologies involved. Organizations that refuse to adopt an Agile mindset can jeopardize their entire business. Recent occurrences in the world, including the pandemic,…
Adopting Agile? Check Your Teams’ Cognitive Load
Learn three common symptoms of bad Agile practices, best practices for adoption, and tips for continuity from Modus Director of Engineering, JP Quesada.
Forget Methodologies, Focus on Customers
Brec Hanson discusses four popular customer-centric methodologies in this post – Agile, Lean, waterfall, and design thinking. Learn their strengths and weaknesses and how they can help organizations balance innovation, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
The 7 Step Process of Driving Change
User Interface engineer Trevor Brindle shares how he proactively made a major improvement to the developer experience for his team at one of our clients, reducing a barrier that allowed them to more rapidly push updates to the client’s product.
Deliver Big Value Quickly with a Small Team
Read our small team’s learnings, methods, and shortcuts in creating an involved and valuable app in a very short amount of time for our client. This article also covers how we applied user centric design, focus and prioritization, as well as the results we were able to achieve.
How to Execute Effective Automated Tests
Effective automated tests speed up delivery, reduce errors, and deliver better products. However, incorrectly implementing test automation can increase costs and delay delivery. Our QA Community of Experts wrote about how to execute valuable automated tests.
The 15 Best New Features in Laravel 8
Laravel 8 released on September 8th and brought many new features that improve the Laravel UI and developer experience. Take a look at the 15 best new features available in Laravel 8.
Scaled Agile – Why? When? How?
Scaled Agile empowers organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. This blog post provides insight into why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.
Daily Stand Ups and Crisis Management
Agile organizations often use Daily Stand Ups and similar meetings as a way to drive alignment and adaptability. Daily Stand Ups ensure that actions create both valuable and viable outcomes – and are needed more today than ever.
Master Advanced Historical Operators for JQL Search
As teams expand, take on new work, and continue to push to meet deadlines, it grows increasingly likely that an issue will be lost in the mix. Teams can use JQL and historic operators to search through your Jira instance’s history – learn how!
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