What Working as an Remote Employee is Really Like Up to this point in my career, I have been an office worker. My work life has been about commuting by car to uninspiring office buildings year after year. Although I never had traditional 9 to 5 jobs, the mindset in the companies I have worked …
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Scaled Agile Framework for Dummies Given that the technology industry is fast-paced, with new products seemingly released every other day, we need a framework that can keep up with the innovation, imagination, and creativity of today’s minds. Business owners want their software developed with user-friendly features and no bugs, and they want it fast. This …
Manage Your Startups Risks: How to Use Lean Principles Entrepreneurship is all about risk. Building a startup is a risky exercise. But research has shown that most successful entrepreneurs are masters at analyzing and minimizing or avoiding risk. Just like investors, they view entrepreneurship not as a business of taking risks, but as one of mitigating and …
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Rewriting Code: Success or Failure? Every developer of some experience has seen it at least once. The evil beast of an application that should be killed with fire to rise from the ashes as a beautifully crafted phoenix. Business people dread the moment when they need to scale their team and the best new developer …
AngularJS + RequireJS While delivering software projects for startups, we’ve come to love AngularJS. We’ve also come to struggle with clean modularity, both the parts that Angular does really well, and the parts that are somewhat missing. RequireJS does a great job where Angular leaves some things to be desired, but using them together is …
Marie Louise Kok Talks about Remote Teams Hiring a remote development team can be risky. Managing that team and ensuring that it performs well can also be a challenge. In this interview, Sanoma’s Marie Louise Kok shares some best practices for hiring and working with a remote team, based on her experience with Squads. Marie Louise worked …
How to Support Lean Startups As we work mostly for Startups we always align our work with the process they face in search of product-market fit. Lean Startup and Customer Development are common practices used by our clients. Our understanding of these practices makes Squads stand out against traditional digital agencies and software developers. We …
