Client demo is so damn important that it’s hard to overstate it! Not presenting working software is a brilliant way to pile up problems in the project. Yet plenty of its benefits are subtle and easy to overlook. Do your project a favor and know what’s to gain or loose here.
Sprint scope changes are one of the most common ways Scrum goes sideways. “We have sprints, but… we change their scope.” The paradox of keeping a sprint scope fixed is to welcome change!
Project estimates are extremely difficult and important. Clients need ones they can rely on. They put them on their roadmaps. They make promises to their stakeholders based on the estimates. They budget according to them. There's always a pressure for the estimates to be low (cheap), yet accurate. At the same time we never have enough information about the project. This is the crux of every project. That's the intersection of plans, expectations, priorities, assumptions and uncertainties. How do you handle all that?
Have you heard about Scrum, but…? This means “we do scrum, but…” we don’t do retrospectives, don’t do daily standups, etc. Well, there’s a deep wisdom behind all the Scrum practices we give up. Be aware of the risks you create and know how to counteract them. This is a first post in a series that aims to show how you can keep the benefits of Scrum in real life.
Tree of knowledge, career choices and selective consistency. Today, we take a step back from our daily work to discuss the frontend landscape. Kuba speaks about chances and challenges of being a Senior Developer in 2016 and how he sees the ecosystem evolving in the near future.
Here’s everything we know about developer salaries. How it works in the long run, how the market looks like? What are the rules we haven't been taught in school but are shaping our careers?
Search has become a key component of growing online platforms and their knowledge bases. Is your search enabling your users to find what they need?
Amazon search experienced a severe outage today. It didn't last long but impacted much more than just the search box and results. It's a good moment to realize how important the search really is.
Building high performance apps tends to result in a lot of learning and plenty of interesting stories. That's why in the beginning of 2016 we've silently launched our new blog: tech.evojam.com. This is a hardcore, technological publication devoted to engineering of serious web applications. Ones that need to handle a lot of traffic or data.
When I had applied for my internship at Evojam, I had a semester or two of Computer Science related study under my belt and a lot of time spent fiddling with programming on my own. I vividly remember at one point realising that I had been writing a Hello World tutorial for the 8th or 9th time.
