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Traditional Staff Augmentation Doesn’t Work. There’s A Better Way to Add Dev Capacity.
Staff augmentation is the traditional way of adding to your software team when capacity is strained. But when it comes to complex projects in a modern stack like Laravel, traditional staff augmentation often fails to deliver an easy surge in development capacity.
As it turns out, simply adding personnel doesn’t necessarily make a project more successful.
It’s time to buck tradition — here’s why an embedded team will help your team make more progress and get better results.
As it turns out, simply adding personnel doesn’t necessarily make a project more successful.
It’s time to buck tradition — here’s why an embedded team will help your team make more progress and get better results.
Turn Your Boss from Enemy to Ally in Your Battle Against Technical Debt
Technical debt is the practical manifestation of the old phrase “check yourself before you wreck yourself.” Left unchecked, it’s almost definitely going to wreck your progress. And when technical debt comes up, tension rises and tempers flare.
Repaying technical debt slows down new features, costs developers time, and to leadership, often seems like a sunk cost.
What leadership does not understand (or actively ignores) is that taking on too much technical debt has severe consequences. Here are 4 arguments to help you get your technical debt repayment funded.
Repaying technical debt slows down new features, costs developers time, and to leadership, often seems like a sunk cost.
What leadership does not understand (or actively ignores) is that taking on too much technical debt has severe consequences. Here are 4 arguments to help you get your technical debt repayment funded.
Building a Web App Without an Internal Team? Keep These 3 Factors in Mind
If you are getting ready to build a web app, there’s a lot of information you need to gather. Without an internal expert, you may be acting as the leader. Or perhaps your team has taken a divide-and-conquer approach.
Either way, you probably have a long to-do list and a lot to think about. Get your internal team together and get direction with these three questions that will guide you through the first decisions you need to make.
Either way, you probably have a long to-do list and a lot to think about. Get your internal team together and get direction with these three questions that will guide you through the first decisions you need to make.
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