Website Types

There are times a client will come to us saying they want a website.  The most important question following that statement is WHY?  What are you looking for the site to do for you?  What is its purpose?

  • Personal website
  • Business website
  • Corporate website
  • Organizational website

Is the client using the website for social networking?  or to sell something and disperse information?  or as a private intranet for their company?

Once the “WHY” has been determined, the changes of meeting the goals of the customer become easier to achieve.

Need help figuring out your “WHY”?  Just let us know.

 

 

Agile Software Development – part 2

The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 by seventeen independent-minded software practitioners . While the participants didn’t agree about much, they found consensus around four main values.

The 4 points are simple and easy to understand.  Check it out.  Have questions?  Just contact us.

 

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Agile Software Development – part 1

Familiar with the term?  If you are in the tech industry, you should be.

Back in the “old days”, your company decided it needed a custom piece of software.  You hired a company, worked out the specs, the developers built software based on the specs and in a few months or years, delivered your software.  That’s great but you don’t know what you DON’T know.  If you needed to make modifications to that software, it was harder and usually more expensive.

Agile development is a different approach to software development.  Requirements and solutions come from collaborative teams and end users.  Developers work for a while towards a small goal (sprint), then it is reviewed to determine what needs to be added, changed or deleted.  Plans are revisited by all parties, another small goal is determined and the developers go back to work again.  The cycle continues until the project is completed.

A book, The Agile Manifesto, came out in the 90’s.  It describes a set of methods and practices for software development.  To learn more, check out this website.

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No Time

Imagine that a Fortune 500 Company.  A department within that company needs a web application.  Of course, they could get their internal IT department to do it — but the need the site done BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH!

Their IT department is already backed up and can’t even look at it before the end of the month, let alone complete it.

That’s when they came to us.  We had a mock-up done before the end of the week.  They approved the mock-up and we had the entire application completed within 10 days — and under budget.

To make this happen, we utilized Agile methods and Asana scheduling, as well as Javascript, HTML and Bootstrap.  The site is designed so that their internal IT department can maintain it.  Thank you Toshiba for giving us the opportunity to help you.

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