The success rate of IT projects is finally starting to improve after years of poor performance. A recent report from the Project Management Institute (PMI) divided companies into champions and failures. Champions are those companies with an 80 percent success rate on...
Agile vs Lean Software Development: Is it just splitting hairs?
The concept of Lean Software Development (LSD) is credited to Dr. Robert Charette in 1993. Ten years later, Tom and Mary Poppendieck published “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.” Despite the concept being over twenty years old, there still seems to be some...
Build a mobile customer journey map for successful app development
Mobile app revenues grew by 35 percent in 2017, reaching nearly $60 billion. Building a successful mobile app allows you to maximize revenue from this growing market. Despite what marketing gurus tell you, success is largely driven by your users. Do they like your...
Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology: Can it save your business time and money?
Rapid Application Development (RAD) was first coined by James Martin in 1991 in an effort to develop a new approach for software development. The current standard at the time—the Waterfall methodology—focused heavily on planning and following a series of steps in the...
The future of banking technology: Mobile solutions for banks and financial services
A recent EY Global Banking Outlook survey found that 85 percent of banks view a digital transformation program as a high priority for 2018. Innovations in technology are reshaping the future of the industry and customers’ expectations. Many larger banks and financial...
How to build a successful mobile app: Focus on the product, not the code
As of Q1 2018, there were 3.8 million apps available in the Google Play Store and 2 million available in the Apple App Store. That is a lot of competition. We want to help your mobile application stand out from the crowd. The first thing you have to do? Step back from...