Software Development

By Sheyinka Harry As the liaison between the business/customer and the team, the Product Owner is innately responsible for creating the Product Vision and Mission, as well as the resulting Product Backlog. When creating these artifacts, Product Owners spend a great portion of their time in meetings with: The stakeholders to capture their needs; The…

By Sheyinka Harry As stakeholders, we are sometimes so focused on pushing our teams to get the product out that we lose sight of the full scope of the role we play in the product delivery process. Being a stakeholder on a project isn’t just about making new product backlog requests or attending the demos…

By Sheyinka Harry We’ve all undoubtedly experienced times when issues arise during projects and within teams that could have been easily avoided. How, you might ask? Simply by asking the right questions. Having enquiring minds and openly asking questions can help uncover potential challenges and ultimately play a huge part in the generation of optimal…

By Kadaine Williams Software testing is often seen as a redundant and rudimentary process of clicking a few buttons and validating to see if the desired outcome is achieved. This shortsighted view is held by many individuals outside of the Software Testing community, and as such, the Quality Assurance (QA) process is sometimes seen as…

By Stacy Kirk   It is impossible to overlook the major controversy that has been sparked by the failures of the mobile voting app that was commissioned to support the recent Iowa elections. This app, designed to tabulate and report results from the precincts – had significant glitches that resulted in a full day of…

The Client BB&T is an American bank holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with a Leadership Institute focused on positively impacting businesses and communities by teaching leadership principles rooted in self-awareness. One area of focus of the Institute is to reaching emerging student leaders. Through education partners, they reach students to promote financial literacy…

By Janique Morris   What are the odds of building a financially successful app? According to Gartner, it’s less than 0.01%. It may sound a bit ludicrous when you consider the fact that, every day, an average of 3739 apps are added to the Play Store and 1,372 to the iOS App Store. That’s almost 2…

By Khadijah Brown  The evolution of the software world is quickly rendering manual processes not only obsolete but particularly annoying for the few who have not yet figured out how to transition. Recently, a client reached out to my team, frustrated about the tedious task of having to manually track the performance of their custom…

By Sheyinka Harry   Banks and other organizations in the Financial Services Industry are spending billions of dollars on IT services every year. To be specific, data from the PWC Global FinTech Survey of 2016 revealed global spending of banks amounting to $215 billion in 2014. I’m sure you can understand why. Consumers depend on…

By Shantel Stewart-Gayle   A Product Owner has various responsibilities and the efficient application of this role across an organization or during a project tends to be a challenge. With this being said, there are several pitfalls that result from this. In addressing some of these pitfalls, best practices can be derived resulting in the…