One size does not always fit all. A strategy that works with T-shirts and other types of clothing may not be what is best for your organization. This is true for Agile Methodology. Whereas, the basic Agile principles may always apply to your development business needs, how you specifically apply these principles to your day-to-day …
In rugby, a scrum is where the players restart play on opposing sides, bodies interlocked and heads down, pushing forward and trying to gain possession of a ball by kicking it backward towards their own side of the field. My favorite definition of scrum is, “A disordered or confused situation involving a number of people.” When …
Picture the final scene of the movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” where, much to Indiana Jones’ dismay, the Ark of the Covenant is crated and tucked away among thousands of other crates of artifacts the government did not want found. Now, picture the opening of the latest installment of the “Raiders” movie franchise and …
Recently, my notebook computer started to fail. Actually, the notebook’s hardware is fine. It’s just that its little processor heart can’t seem to keep up with the newer operating system and application software I’ve loaded onto it over the course of the last few years.
Reflexively, I reached for my smartphone and started browsing for a …
The only constant is change. That is to say, things are constantly changing. Just when you think you’ve got a full grasp on the internet and all the possibilities it brings, along comes a paradigm shift that moves the game from the home or office. Now, instead of using e-commerce through the internet, we can …
Cloud computing delivers information technology services through the internet directly to the user, on demand, where the user can then store his or her information in the cloud instead of on a local device.
Of course, your information isn’t really sitting on a mass of water vapor floating about between the ground and the vacuum of …
You have successfully navigated your way through an e-commerce website, filled your cart with goodies, and now it’s time to enter your payment particulars, such as:
Name as it appears on your account or card
Account or card number
Expiration date
Card Verification Code (CVC)
After all the required information is entered, you click a button …
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is a web design technique that strives to optimize the user’s viewing and interaction experience. The idea is to make reading and navigation easier by minimizing the need to resize elements on the screen and reducing the need to scroll. Optimally, a single source of web code can be reused across …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a whole bunch of objects, interconnected by the internet, that are able to exchange data through application programming interfaces (APIs). An estimated 25 billion IoT objects will be connected and exchanging data by the year 2020, according to my colleague Amanda Myers’ related blog post last week. That’s a …
At last month’s Abila User and Developer Conference (AUDC 2016), the Abila Usability Team conducted usability studies covering six products in 10 different product areas.
We hosted 86 test subjects from 55 different organizations who worked in multiple focus groups to offer up 199 product recommendations to enhance our products.
That’s the story “by the numbers,” but the …