Gaslighting: What It Is and Why You Shouldn’t Do It To Customers
There are many tactics that are used in business to close deals, persuade potential customers, and gain power. One such tactic is known as gaslighting, and we’re here to talk about what it [...]
Lessons in Security – What We’ve Learned from 15+ Years of Remote Development
There are many reasons why more and more development teams are going fully remote: the increasingly mature and expansive capabilities of cloud tools and development environments and team [...]
Why Are Women Stuck in Soft-Skills Roles in IT?
In 2019, only 19% to 20% of computer software engineers and programmers were women — a number that’s been declining for the past thirty years. In the midwest, we have observed that women were [...]
Why Some Big Companies Struggle with Innovative Projects
Big companies sometimes struggle to complete innovative projects for a number of reasons – but often, it’s because corporate leaders don’t recognize the limitations of their [...]
Creating a Software Development Plan: Slidecaster Part 2
(This is Part 2 of our series on the development of the Slidecaster iPhone App and Desktop Slideshow System. To read earlier articles, check out Part 1). As you read in Part 1 of this series, we [...]
Body Shop Consulting: A Dying Model
Most IT consulting shops fall into one of two categories: Project Shops – where the entire software development project is outsourced to the consulting company to be managed and completed. [...]
What Football Can Teach Us About Top Software Development Companies
Most business professionals know that leadership is a vital and crucial element to any company, and it’s especially true in a fast-paced, high-growth industry such as software development. [...]
How to Be a Trustworthy Consultant – Part 2
In the previous article in this series, we covered the first step to being a trustworthy consultant – establishing a personal business relationship with your clients. In this article, we [...]
How to Be a Trustworthy Consultant – Part 1
There’s a great “Demotivators” poster out there that reads: “Consulting – If you’re not part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.” While this poster is [...]