In the first of a two-part series ‘Stop doing upfront…’ Kirsten focusses on the waste of doing huge amounts of upfront design and how we seek to maximise our design effort within a user story and a sprint. Continue reading
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The Lean approach is sound, you just need to convince your clients
It makes sense to follow Lean principles and deliver minimum viable product (MVP) but be prepared to hit some resistance. Kirsten talks about some convincing arguments to back up the approach and how it’s important to be considered as valuable for the expertise and knowledge you bring to the project as for the development and design skills you posses. Continue reading
The Sprint Team, The Gun Slinger and the ad-hoc client request
Kirsten discusses how we deal with bugs, urgent client requests and issues that could easily distract the sprint team during lock down Continue reading
A night of TDD and full stack BDD: review
This month Kirsten organised our ‘Last Thursdays’ talks at the Green Room and we ran a tech heavy event covering Test Driven Development and full-stack Behaviour Driven Development. Here’s a summary and the videos. Continue reading
Interview with Digital Designer Natalie
It’s that time of year when we’re on the lookout for talented students to join us in the Green Room for their placement year. So we thought we’d ask Natalie, now our well established Digital Designer, who began her days within our internship programme about her experiences during the programme. Continue reading
Sending data to our website via Arduino and end-to-end BDD
We’re using our 5-6pm personal development time to run a mini project, sending our coffee consumption stats to our website. To achieve this we’ll be playing with some nice new things. Continue reading
We’re on the lookout for a talented web developer
We’re on the lookout for an individual with passion for web development and with a superb knowledge open and experience developing robust, optimised and elegant solutions for the web. Continue reading
Moving to BDD with PHP
Rob Squires introduces how we have adopted a ‘Full stack’ behaviour driven development (BDD) workflow with phpspec and behat, how it has improved the productivity of the whole team and helped us successfully deliver our latest project havells-sylvania.com. Continue reading
Enhancing our CMS with multi-lingual features in Symfony
Pete walks through the initial steps we took to build a multi-lingual bundle for our CMS Continue reading
Tools for an Agile digital agency
After a week of tweeting about the tools we use for facilitating our Agile process, Kirsten has summed it all up in one post. Continue reading