Category: Development
6 ultimate reasons to build your educational app with Setapp
Global investments in EdTech are on the rise. 24 percent more in 2017 than in 2016. Smartphones and tablets are getting affordable. And more accessible. The use of VR and AR in education is gaining momentum. 1200 EdTech companies in the UK. Wait a second, isn’t that supposed to be FinTech? Big brother a.k.a FinTech
How to effectively form agile teams in your company
Many of us work in software development companies that use agile practices and frameworks. For most of us, it works well, and we’re satisfied with the results. However, most agile frameworks are not complete methodologies, and therefore don’t include solutions to all of the problems. For example, how to form new teams, how to educate
Four valuable practices for a better code review
Agile is all about constant improvements. We do retrospectives, we improve our delivery pipelines, we make our work more transparent, and we also do code quality improvements. The most famous code quality improvement practice is code review. Code review is basically a process of verifying and improving your code quality. It not only helps you
How to effectively use timeline to plan and monitor your sprint
The Scrum Guide™ states that the outcome of a sprint planning event should be a list of Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and a plan on how to deliver them. Similar to other things in the Scrum framework, a concrete definition of what the plan should look like is not provided. Authors of the Scrum framework
6 mistakes you should avoid when starting a new digital project
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Anne Glaesel
If you have ever managed or worked within a team that’s delivering a digital project then you’ve probably come across the frustration of meeting the deadline and controlling software development costs. We certainly have and there were many reasons why we encountered problems, but we learnt from our mistakes. Why do teams struggle or fail? There
How to control software development costs? [5 practical tips for PMs]
According to research published in the Harvard Business Review, one in six IT projects has a cost overrun of 200 percent. That’s a very alarming number – mismanaged projects make huge losses for companies and often costs managers their job. So, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if your project gets out of control. The
Is Planning Poker a perfect estimation technique in scrum?
Estimating the complexity of a task, the time needed to complete it and it’s combined risks are an inherent part of the Scrum process. Planning Poker is considered by some Scrum teams as an ideal approach for all estimations. It doesn’t matter to them if they have to estimate one big task with many subtasks, twenty
Four good communication practices for distributed teams
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Anne Glaesel
One of the biggest, and yet common, issue during a project within distributed teams is communication. If you are working with Scrum or any other Agile development methodology, you have probably realized that having conversations every day is a valuable step in the process. This is because the team’s productivity and the product’s success are
Scrum release planning – How to estimate software release date?
“Planning is everything. Plans are nothing.” – Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke Planning is critical to the success of any project. Plans answer the key question of the rationality of the investment itself. Plans help us to know who needs to be assigned to work on a project and help to track the progress towards the
A recipe to get to know Scrum – with Scrum simulation
This blog post was originally published in Polish on IT-Leaders.pl and is co-written by Anna Finn, Language & Communication Specialist at Setapp. Imagine that you have bought a house and you would like to renovate it. You choose the best man for the job in town. Then, you decide on the final look of your new