Do you often find yourself realising a lot of important information is missing from your requirements halfway through the development of a feature? What if you could test that feature before writing any code? Software development teams will often jump into writing code too early as developers are eager to…

The downsides of disguising change requests as defects If you pass change requests off as defects you’ll lose sight of your real defects (‘true bugs’) as the change requests may be prioritised over fixing the defects and it’ll be harder to gauge an accurate severity for the items. If the change requests are prioritised then there’s a potential…

The term ‘agile’ is a bit of a buzzword these days, something for companies to claim to be, but the majority of those ‘Agile’ companies have adopted practices from elsewhere and hoped that this transforms their company into delivering work faster. Being agile isn’t about adhering to some form of…

Guide to launching a YouTube channel for your business YouTube is the most visited website after Google. And, it’s the prime destination for video content. The platform has an estimated 2 billion users every month, and most of these users are highly engaged, watching around 1 billion hours worth of content per day. Whatever type of marketing material you…

Productivity can be the downfall of many entrepreneurs. Your mind may be bursting with ideas, but you may not know how to effectively manage your time. Also, you may not know how to structure your work and maximize the time you have. This is natural. Luckily, it is also something…

Testing is an important part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and many teams strive to include testing into the way they build their products. The implementation of testing can range from a completely manual process carried out after development, to developers writing automated checks as part of writing…

The move towards agile is often kick started in engineering teams with an intention of improving the development process but if this process works in a silo then it’s doomed to fail. It won’t take too long for the engineering team to improve the processes in their direct control and…

Building services, websites and apps from scratch can be a long process with potential duplication of effort needed to implement business and display logic across different back-end and front-end platforms. It’s more important now than it’s ever been to ensure that businesses have the flexibility to adjust their offerings to…

Working in a software team is easy — The business gives you a specification on what to build, the developers build it, the testers test it and then you deploy it somewhere for people to use it. But what happens when those individuals don’t work in sync and the team…