Erin Agile development, In the Field, Web Design & Development 0
A few months ago, Ethan brought up a great rule for tackling a new project: Identify the hardest parts—the problems you don’t immediately know how you’ll solve—and make it a point to accomplish those pieces first. This is not always easy. When you’re looking at a long list of stories, it can be very tempting [...]
Chris Agile development, How-to, MVPs, Web Design & Development 0
I’m working on an MVP for a great client right now. Although the two guys behind the app are really design-y by nature, their goal with this iteration is to produce a basic desktop version, get it in front of users, and see if it’s worth pursuing further. So on the front end, I felt [...]
Erin Agile development, News, Web Design & Development 0
We’re happy to introduce the world to the Pericles Project, an awesome application we helped build and launched just a few weeks ago. Our client had a great idea for a news aggregator that offers you personalized recommendations for which news to read, based on your similarity to other users. It also helps you break [...]
Trey Agile development, MVPs, Web Design & Development 0
We work with a lot of startups—companies who are anxious to get their great idea built and delivered to the world. One of the biggest challenges startup entrepreneurs face is figuring out exactly what to build and when. Startups don’t have endless capital, like larger corporations, and they can’t explore every idea or build their [...]
Ethan Agile development, Cucumber, How-to, In the Field, Jasmine, Testing, Web Design & Development 0
In our team’s testing process (and we do have a significant process to make sure that everything gets covered), we’ve noted in the past that we have quite a bit of overlap between what’s covered by our Javascript unit tests (typically with Jasmine) and by our browser-driving acceptance tests (Cucumber and Capybara with Selenium-Webdriver). Because [...]
Erin Agile development, How-to, User stories, Web Design & Development 2
We held a company retreat in a lodge at Sundance Resort a few weeks ago. We made fantastic pizza and played cutthroat ping pong, but we also spent a great deal of time discussing our process. I’ll post some of the highlights in the next few weeks. We spent a session discussing how we estimate [...]