Almost all development companies I know are considered as doing Agile development in Barcelona (there are still companies that do not use agile) make daily meetings, sprints, estimate and planning … use practices described in agile methodology. Many use Scrum, Kanban other. I haven’t found companies using XP or another “flavor”.... read more →
Mar
15
WHAT IS OUTSOURCING? Outsourcing or subcontracting is the process by which resources company delegates certain areas to another company. In the case of software development, there are different types of outsourcing: Hiring a number of technical staff (known pejoratively as body-shopping) Hire experts to provide value Hire a... read more →
Mar
08
In these times that lean culture is already instituted, to build their MVP Apps, startups have understood that they can not predict the future and know in advance that their users are going to need. The functional growth and product evolution is then based on small steps from... read more →
Mar
03
This last week has been a very productive discussion on how to use an exception policy. In particular one of our best agile development team leads stated the following: PREAMBLE Distinguish between at least three types of errors: Logical errors, reflecting a violation in the invariant... read more →
Feb
28
What’s the secret to success? How can we be involved in more than 20 agile projects at the same time with companies all around the world? SECRET TO SUCCESS: 10 REASONS We love what we do We have all the roles involved under the same roof Technical perfection matter... read more →
Feb
24
How to establish a minimum standard of acceptance level of internal and external quality of the outsourced work? What should be the basis on which work with an outsourcing company? This article aims to establish a strict approach to working with outsourcing dams whether local or agile offshore... read more →
Feb
18
The three year anniversary of Apiumtech is approaching. Like any company that is going through a continuous improvement cycle, a major concern has been, since the beginning, to have MVP and regular meetings between managers. That would permit to focus on the business value and go step by step adding exactly... read more →
Feb
15
After analyzing the hiring of external resources, either by a startup own product or an enterprise software development, etc … the logical question is Who to hire? Obviously the answer to this question will be determined by the type of company that hires the services. You can raise the following... read more →
Feb
09
Everyone dedicated to project management software (whether a startup, an established company or a company that develops software for others) at some point has contracted with another software company. You can go further in this statement and in my case, I can say that … 20 years dedicated... read more →