Typically on most Agile projects, the success (or failure) of a project can heavily depend on how good (or bad) the product owner is and how committed they are. Good Agile teams that consistently deliver the right thing at the right time, and with…
There are a lot of things that feed into the quality of your work life. As social creatures, the culture of our surroundings is one of the most important one.
There’s been loads of writing about how operating models vary from business to business. Since Agile was a thing (from 2001) it has grown to become a buzzword that many organisations see as a silver bullet. This is not a new phenomenon. We often see…
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We have recently delivered a project for Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) to re-design and build their World Risk Review website. We're currently in the final hardening sprint, doing some bug fixing and UAT. We'll be able to talk more about the benefits…
The term “lean” is thrown around a lot in the software world these days. It's the new agile. In reality, most people don't really understand what is meant by lean, or at least what was meant by the those who pioneered the movement.
As with everything we do here at Red Badger we try and iterate and improve each of our disciplines during an application's or project’s life cycle. One of the items that we have been exploring is the use of GitHub and what it can bring to the table…
If one should do a word cloud out of the Agile literature one word that would be big and bold is 'pragmatic'. It is the essence of Agility, which is a response to prescriptive methodologies elaborated far from the reality of the field. However…
Crafting the perfect development environment is difficult. Reproducing this environment for every member of your team, across development machines, running on different platforms and filled up with dependencies from previous projects is even harder.…
Last Tuesday we got together as a tech team (developers, testers, agile project managers) and held a Tech Round Table of 2012. The premise was simple - let’s make a list of all the tech we’d used in 2012 and then figure out what we liked best, what…
Here at our (currently) sunny workshop in Clerkenwell, myself and the fellow badgers have being busy carefully crafting this, the new red-badger.com website and blog. Internal projects here are run with an ethos of allowing software engineers to…
We go to quite a lot of effort at Red Badger to find the right people to employ, people who will invest themselves in our company and what we’re trying to achieve; all very noble. But as with all good relationships, it’s not just about the take but…
So I've joined the team at Red Badger, and now that I'm 2 weeks in I thought I'd share some musings. For those that don't know me, I'm the new Director of Client Services, which means I'm going to be responsible for all things business development,…
At Red Badger, we’re huge fans of the cloud and we try to persuade our clients to be too. Where possible, we base the products/services that we are developing on cloud infrastructure for its many obvious advantages. Birdsong, our popular Windows…