Managing Multiple Projects: Part 1
October 15th, 2019
One of my favorite things about working at CodeNoise is the ability to work on multiple projects. Variety in the types of products we work on gives me a lot of fresh new challenges that are interesting to solve. Sometimes, the process of working through problems with one product can provide helpful insight into totally unrelated products.
As with everything, variety also has its challenges. One of the operational hurdles people ask us about is how we manage to keep multiple projects on track at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
What is the user trying to accomplish?
September 25th, 2019
“User-centered design (UCD) is an iterative design process in which designers and other stakeholders focus on the users and their needs in each phase of the design process” – Interaction Design Foundation
The Craft of Code
June 24th, 2019
Software developers are a dime a dozen. Between university Computer Science departments pumping them out as fast as the debt can be run up, to boot camps, self-teaching, and the “tangential to my job” people finding themselves writing code, it is easy to see that this isn’t the most difficult of disciplines to learn. As with anything though, the difference between the merely capable, the competent, and the master can be stark.
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Which Project Management Tool is Right for Your Team?
April 16th, 2019
While practicing project management with a variety of companies, I have been fortunate to work in a time where there has been an explosion of different methods and tools. As a software enthusiast, sometimes it feels like being a kid in a candy store!
When talking shop with others in project management or software development, the toolsets we use always come up as a topic. “What is your favorite?” “What do you find works best?”