Category: Development

Lean Manufacturing: how to grow your company

Lean Manufacturing is far from being fresh news. However, it’s a term you’ll likely hear even more. After all, we live in a world that there is so much competition and a completely globalized market. This doesn’t mean that the pressure on corporate professionals is increasing, that there is no longer any tolerance for individual […]

Metrics for Startups: 5 Tools to Measure Results

Metrics are fundamental for any type of business. They indicate whether an activity is working in the enterprise. In the case of startups, these metrics are even more important. Firstly, because companies in their origin cannot run the risk of wasting resources on poor actions. For a CEO, it’s essential to have a summary of […]

DevOps Culture: Creating Better Performance

In an increasingly competitive IT market, DevOps has become a strong ally for companies. Also, it seeks to modernize its processes and eliminate traditional hierarchies. And DevOps culture appears as a strategy to solve these problems and increase both work aspects. DevOps principles help in managing environments and enable organizations to succeed in aligning their […]

Gamification: 10 Ideas to Develop Education

Gamification in education is one of the examples of strategy that has been generating very positive results. It combines game reasoning with learning elements to develop students’ skills. The incorporation of technology in education collaborated with the development of innovative teaching methodologies. Also, gamification seeks to encourage student participation and the development of skills and […]

The Ultimate Guide on How to Increase Team Sales with Lean Development

The current market scenario is highly competitive. There are direct competitors for customers to choose what kind of product they want to consume. In this sense, being aware of how to increase sales with Lean Development can make all the difference to a company’s success. Lean Development is an operational philosophy that the main goal […]

3 methods to Scale Sales for Your Startup

It is very common when thinking about scaling sales for a startup, for the entrepreneur to think of various tools for sales automation, ads, blogs, and a series of other mechanisms to make the customer buy. This vision is very realistic in the long run. However, if you are on the way to making your […]

Develop your Software Team with Lean IT

The search for greater efficiency and waste reduction is the objective of every company. However, managers are not always aware of what happens in the Information Technology sector. That’s where Lean IT appears, a methodology that brings dissemination among professionals in the area to achieve better results. Lean IT is the adaptation of concepts originating […]

How to Develop Gamification in a Startup

For a long time, gamification has been a desire for many companies. They wish to create more competitiveness and motivation through their teams to speed up results. The use of gamification for startups is an idea that can help improve their processes and strengthen people management. This methodology is already a trend in traditional companies, […]

How to Create a Pipeline DevOps for IT teams

The DevOps culture aims to break down barriers between teams, while the pipeline unites all worlds: infrastructure, development, automation. Because all teams want to deliver with quality and metrics and because it would be possible to collect how many rollouts were done, for example, in addition to a lot of other data. Continuous Delivery (CD) […]

What is the Difference between Devops and Agile?

Most software development professionals have heard of methodologies such as DevOps and Agile. However, it is natural to face some doubts when choosing between them. This is because the differences between one and the other are not always clear. To understand exactly the advantages of opting for DevOps or Agile, it’s important to have some […]

The Benefits of Developing Scrum in Healthcare System

The digital transformation in healthcare has brought new methods for agile and efficient management such as Lean Healthcare, Kanban, Scrum. There are some main foundations of agile methodologies, such as dynamic mindset, constant adaptations, improved efficiency, and greater flexibility in work processes. Moreover, when delivering intelligent results, they offer more freedom to employees, who find […]

Stand out in the Development Industry with Cross-Functional Teams

Companies that strive for excellence must systematically invest in people. In an increasingly competitive world, companies show concern for developing cross-functional teams to differentiate their competitive potential in the market. To manage people it is necessary to understand people, like people, share with them, listen to them and leave paradigms aside, expand the mind to […]

Lean Startup vs. Design Thinking: What is the Difference?

Facing challenges in a business can be simpler when you use the right tools. But do you know how to make this choice? To define the necessary changes to overcome any difficulties, it is necessary to know your company’s objectives. In this context, Design Thinking and Lean are useful approaches that apply to different types […]

How to Create Smart Integrations for an Agile Team

Agile models were created for software development, but are being applied in other branches of the industry, such as infrastructure and managed services. Smart integrations of teams can reach some results for software development. Its adoption on a large scale will redefine the market, both from the perspective of the customer, as well as that […]

How to Develop a Scrum Support for DevOps Teams

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of several methodologies for dynamic project management. DevOps is an emerging methodology that helps teams develop and bring results. The problem is that many of these frameworks work under different approaches, which raises doubts about the possibilities of integrating concepts such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, DevOps. […]

5 Outstanding Benefits for Great Lean Startups Practices

The first steps of a new business are always unsafe. After all, those who start an enterprise can feel lost due to a lack of experience and a large number of innovations in the market. Furthermore, even when the first obstacles are overcome, the challenges do not end: growing steadily and sustainably can be an […]

Introducing Masterful MVP Practices in a Lean Startup

More than a trend among creative entrepreneurs, the MVP or Minimum Viable Product is a methodology that allows testing the impact of a product from the beginning of its development. With this proposal, the time between the idea and its realization reduces a lot, which offers several benefits to decision-making. MVP allows for an outside […]

How to Use Unexpected Advantages to Boost your Lean Startup

In the administration world, entrepreneurs learn that to start a business, they must make a business plan. The plan also needs to have revenue, profit, and cash flow projections for the next five years. The Lean Startup movement has come to put all this in check. Thinking about solving the challenges that arise in opening […]

Discover Advanced Feature-Driven Development practices in a Project Management

Before the Agile Manifesto came to life, some tools ruled the management world. And of them is the Feature-Driven Development, as known as FDD. The FDD was first of all created by Jeff de Luca in 1997, based on the Coad method, created by Peter Coad in the 1980s,  and on the interactive and lean […]

The importance of Extreme Programming for team’s productivity

As agile methodologies are a real deal for many enterprises, there are some which are simply good to make your teamwork grow in a short time. And of them is Extreme Programming (XP), a tool that has its own values and rules and is helpful to every company which needs to increase productivity. Similar to […]

The influence of Scrum Events in the development processes, and their impact over quality

Scrum is a framework widely used today for software development. It is said to be a framework because it doesn’t prescribe anything, it’s not a process or even a technique, and it’s perfectly adaptable. In Scrum, we can include several techniques used in other processes, that way we can always improve it. This type of […]

User Stories: Valuable Innovations for Customers

Innovation has become worn jargon in the market today. We use it widely, sometimes inappropriately, but the point is it is the main challenge for companies of all areas. In a competitive world, innovative processes can determine marketing leaders, and innovative products can grant leadership for some time (until they get surpassed or imitated).