When you scroll through your favorite mobile applications on your phone, or browse through your favorite website, it‘s easy to forget that many of them started in the same way… a simple idea that evolved over time.Before Snapchat became the number one app for social media enthusiasts, it was the brainchild of a Stanford University… Read More >
Why Preventing Scope Creep is Like Making Chili
The person who coined the phrase “You can never have too much of a good thing” probably never encountered a situation dealing with software features. As a business owner or entrepreneur looking to start a development related project, you’re going to want to know about preventing scope creep. What is scope creep? Simply put, it… Read More >
A Case for the Agile Development Method
As you know, software development is very challenging. It can be difficult to get your project completed on budget and on time. Having quality output is a whole other facet of the project. The reason many projects can seem needlessly complicated is that they are approached with a traditional mindset or what is commonly known… Read More >
Why Companies Should Develop an App for Business
The way we do business has changed dramatically in the last 5 years. What is the cause of this shift? Advances in technology, and more specifically, mobile apps, are the prime reason why. Apps are helping us work more efficiently and evolving the way we interact with people… The days of Angry Birds and personal… Read More >
What Is The Cloud?
No one is quite sure where the term originated from, but the idea of “the Cloud” is something that we have been using a lot of for the past 20 years. Speculation suggests that it was coined in 1996 when then CEO of Google Eric Schmidt brought it up at a conference. Others claim that… Read More >
7 Reasons Why Software Projects Fail
Failure… It’s a word no one ever wants to hear, and yet it happens all too often when software development projects go awry. While it is a broad term, the idea of “failure” can mean different things… going over budget, delivering the end result later than expected, creating a product that isn’t up to expected… Read More >
How the Internet of Things is Changing Our Lives
We live in a digital era where everything around us is being integrated and connected, simultaneously sending and receiving huge amounts of data. While devices are becoming smarter and are making the things we do easier, there still remains a challenge. We have access to all of this useful information, but we don’t have a… Read More >
The OnShoring of Development
You may have noticed lately that there is a huge trend towards onshoring software development back to the United States. For some years, companies were taking their software projects overseas after hearing stories of how programmers could be acquired for a fraction of the cost of US developers. This was especially appealing for full blown… Read More >
5 Best Practices In Building Applications
Making the choice to build a custom application can seem like a daunting task. There are seemingly endless possibilities with what you can do, and figuring out where to start is often confusing. All you know is that you want your idea to become reality. Before you jump into the process of building an application,… Read More >
It’s Time to Make That Mobile App a Reality
Some days, it seems as though every person I run into has an idea for a mobile app. Some are really good and some probably wouldn’t fly, but I think this illustrates the need (or at least desire) for more useful mobile apps. This also illustrates that your customers (or vendors, or employees) are probably… Read More >