Often customers, or potential customers, will come to us with a pre-supposed view that they need to build a piece of software to solve their business need. We believe this is true only in a handful of cases.
7 Problems to Avoid When Building a Software Team
Building and maintaining a high performance software team is an ongoing effort. The challenges range from attracting great people in a highly competitive market, to providing interesting and challenging workloads, and putting together team structures and practices in which people can thrive.
The Benefits of Continuous Delivery
Continuous Delivery is a technique that grew roots in the IT department, but is very much focused on delivering value, in the shape of shipped software, back to the business more frequently and more reliably.
IaaS vs. PaaS: what we’ve learned
We’ve been long-time proponents of PaaS, or Platform as a Service. We’ve also been long-time consumers of IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service.
Challenges in Contracting Agile Software Projects
As a business that exclusively delivers software using agile methodologies, one of the most common challenges we face is contracting projects.
Products not Projects
Traditionally, software is delivered as a project: a thing with a start and an end date, and probably a list of desired features. The software is (hopefully!) deemed complete by the end date, the project is closed, and the project team move on to their next project.
7 Reasons to Adopt #NoEstimates in Software Delivery
In this first of a pair of articles about software project estimations, I’ll be arguing in favour of foregoing estimations.
Testing without QA
We have an almost continual dialogue on how to improve the quality of the software that we’re involved in delivering. One of the conscious decisions that we’ve made is that we don’t make use of a dedicated QA or test role.
Your Server Is Not A Pet
You should treat your servers as cattle, not as pets. While we can’t claim to have coined this catchphrase here at Made, it is certainly a philosophy that we subscribe to.
Made appointed to redevelop CDP online platforms
We’re pleased to have been appointed to redevelop the online platforms for CDP.
