How to Outsource Your Software Project to Vegas and Win Big!
So you’ve read our white paper “Home Ice Advantage: Local Software has a Competitive Edge” and you’re still thinking about offshoring your software project even though hiring local makes all kinds of sense.
Well, don’t make up your mind just yet because we’ve come up with a third option: Vegas.
Yes, consider onshoring your software project to [...]
Whitepaper: The Importance of Software Architecture
Since architecture is a vital part of any software development process, business leaders should understand its purpose and value before hiring a development firm. Proper architecture is a system framework that, among other things, guides development efforts and helps to reduce the overall cost of software.
In Agile development, some of the key architectural decisions are [...]
Test Deficit Disorder: A Silent Killer of Software
TDD is a serious problem. An outbreak of this uniquely degenerative disease can have a debilitating effect. In fact, it often proves deadly to software applications.
A development team infected with Test Deficit Disorder exhibits a marked aversion to testing their software. Often, they put off testing to the last possible moment, and then rush through [...]
Whitepaper: Test-Driven Development – A Commitment to Quality
When hiring a development firm, clients have a right to expect great software that works. Some firms are unable to satisfy this expectation because their approach to software development is not focused on quality. However, a firm that incorporates test-driven development (TDD) into its development process is able to prevent most software defects from being [...]
Agile People Are…
All experienced software professionals know that it is people, not technology, not process that builds great solutions. This is something that is core to our culture at Architech. We live it, we breathe it, and write about it… Great Team, Great Software. Agile as a methodology, a mind-set, a philosophy is based on this fundamental [...]
Salesforce.com data storage costs and the dark side of multi-tenancy
Anyone who has developed on the Salesforce.com platform will tell you that it has many limitations. For example, if your application is particularly data heavy, the limits on data storage will quickly become a problem. Salesforce.com has implemented a seemingly arbitrary data storage minimum of 2Kb / record, meaning it only takes 500,000 records to [...]
5 Ways to Build Great Software Without Involving Any People
In case you haven’t checked lately, there’s no Make Great Software button on your computer keyboard. And even if there was, it wouldn’t work anyway because software is all about people, right?
It takes people to understand the needs of other people. It also takes people to address those needs with appropriate solutions.
Or does it?
At Architech, [...]
Whitepaper: Great Team, Great Software – Understanding the “People” Factor
What pops into your head when you hear the word “software”? Many business leaders would reply “computers” or “technology”, which is ironic because software is all about people. Software is conceived by people, built by people, and intended for people to use. Naturally then, the quality of a software application depends on the people who [...]
9 software adoption questions to think about
Even the most sophisticated software system will fail if users don’t adopt the tools, and buy into the new process. However, the technical development, integration, and eventual rollout of a new software system typically get’s all the attention at the expense of an end-user adoption plan.
In order to ensure adoption a new system, here are [...]
Whitepaper: Home Ice Advantage – Local Software has a Competitive Edge
As business leaders consider the viability of hiring low-wage, offshore developers for their software projects, they must understand that the cost of labour is only one piece of a larger outsourcing puzzle. In fact, the very success of complex, highly collaborative software engineering projects can be jeopardized by offshoring because of the communication problems and [...]