An Event Apart is about designers and developers coming together to share their newest and greatest ideas on how to make the web a better place. It’s one of the most exciting conferences on the circuit and luckily for us, it was hosted in our hometown of San Francisco this week. Here are some of...
An Event Apart, San FranciscoAt Scalable Path we recommend following the Scrum methodology. Improving this process within the development team is something that is frequently thought about, but it’s also important to consider how a client, who often has the key role of the the Product Owner, can play their part more effectively within the team. MEET THE PRODUCT...
Communication, Complex Tasks, Development Team, Product Backlog, Product Owner, ScrumI hate JavaScript. Well, at least I used to; because I misunderstood it. Before JavaScript, I was mostly a .NET and PHP guy and approached JS the wrong way. Here is why. There are two major programming paradigms: Procedural Programming, which is based on concepts of procedure-call-like routines and subroutines and Functional Programming, which is...
Declarative Approach, Functional Programming, Imperative Approach, Javascript, Polymorphism, Procedural ProgrammingTo those in the trenches getting their hands dirty writing code and implementing, designing, and engineering real-world software, smooth and painless development projects often seem like unicorns: Rarely heard of and more rarely seen. Given how often we tend to hear of or are directly involved in software development projects that run into problems, we...
Agile, Leadership, Scrum, SprintMost modern day work culture separates designers and developers into silos. While I was at a larger company, there was very little communication between our design team and the development team. We were separate assets and literally in different corners of the building. Once the designs were complete, designers would digitally hand off the files...
Collaboration, Designer Hand Off, HTML, Photoshop, Scrum, Skitch, Slack, TrendsLast week I was lucky enough to make it to the annual JSConf Asia event in Singapore. The conference saw a broad range of both local JavaScript developers as well as international attendees coming from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. The conference, which was part of the broader DevFest Asia event, was focused towards showcasing...
DevFest Asia, EMCA 2015, Javascript, JSConf Asia, Node.JS, PM2, RESTfulThis past April 25th and 26th, 2015, we were excited to be a sponsor of JSConf.uy, Uruguay’s premier conference on all things JavaScript in beautiful Montevideo. In addition to Scalable Path being a sponsor, I was privileged to be a speaker at the event. Scalable Path has a deep commitment to South America, and we...
Distributed Teams, Freelancers, Javascript, JSConf, Scrum, SponsorshipWe focus on processes to effectively and efficiently develop digital products. One of our processes is using Agile Development, which includes using Agile Points to assign a common definition to the effort required to complete tasks. In this post we’ll focus on the modified Fibonacci Sequence – 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21,...
Agile Points, Estimating Effort, Fibonacci Sequence, Scrum, Sprint
