by Chad Michel | Sep 8, 2022 | Project Management, Software Engineering
Tracking project progress isn’t as simple as you would think. Common questions often include, “are we there yet?”, “are we going to end over budget?”, and “are we going to end past the schedule?” These questions keep people up at night. And the...
by Todd Guenther | Jun 25, 2019 | Our Engineering, Project Management, Your Vision, Your Vision + Our Engineering
We have several activities that add layers of quality to our software development projects. These activities include unit tests, sprint code reviews, and test plans. Recently, we added another quality layer to our process: acceptance test criteria. This new step...
by Krista Odbert | Apr 4, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, Project Management
I was recently asked to participate as a panelist for a startup week event to share my experience developing MVPs (Minimum Viable Products). Ahead of the panel discussion, our organizer shared potential questions so each panelist could reflect and create our responses...
by Brian Zimmer | Sep 2, 2015 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Project Management
Agile backlogs have become the standard tool used by software teams to document, prioritize, and discuss functionality requests. Although agile backlogs are simple to use and easy to implement, they suffer from the same problem as all lists—growing to a point where...
by Doug Durham | Aug 18, 2015 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Our Engineering, Project Management, Software Engineering
Last Thursday we hosted an open house as part of Agile Lincoln’s monthly meetup. We were blown away by how many people showed up to see who we are, learn what we’re doing, and hear me talk about our approaches to software engineering. Since then a number of people...
by Todd Guenther | Mar 31, 2015 | Project Management
Project management is how software companies manage their various overlapping development efforts while building great software. Likewise, a project manager oversees those efforts. Taking notes, tracking progress, recording milestones, and holding meetings are just a...