Outsourcing vs Outstaffing: What Is the Difference? (Updated)
Starting a new software project can be a puzzling process fraught with decisions outside one’s area of expertise. While some organisations are blessed with capable IT departments that effectively take care of all their company's…
Gamify Your Workplace
While Emily Blunt may have been positively enchanting portraying everyone’s favourite nanny on the big screen last year, who can forget Julie Andrews’ classic words from the 1964 original: “In every job that must be…
Software Metrics: How We Promote Transparency
If you’ve ever worked on a project where very little — if any — attempt was made to keep everyone involved up to speed with development, then you’ll certainly understand how infuriating this can be.…
FAQ #1: Why Do You Require a 2-Month Termination Notice?
Today, we are starting a brand new series of articles on some of the questions Software Planet Group are asked the most. Our hope is that these will someday serve to help you quickly refer…
Pitfalls of the Estimation Process
No estimation process can ever be foolproof, and the same is true when dealing with user stories. For this reason, in this article, Software Planet would like to lay out a few of the most…
Making the Most of Code Review
Every Agile development process strongly stresses the motif that the main goal of developers should not be to concern themselves with side issues, but rather to generate working code. This allows us to implement a…
Our Development Process
At Software Planet, we take great pride in our customer-centric development process. This is why from start to finish, a striking sense of partnership is present in all we do. Still, we recognise that for…
Tuning into the Bigger Picture
The great Earl Nightingale once stated that people with goals succeed because they know where they are going. All too often, however, while our short-term goals are more than apparent, tugging and pulling at us…
Demo Meetings: The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
According to the seventh principle of Agile development, “working software is the primary measure of progress.” Before this revolutionary ideal, however, although customers could still in theory be kept informed on the status of their…
What Great Tech Leads Are Made Of
For developers interested in moving up the ranks, the idea of becoming a tech lead may be as appealing as it is intimidating. After all, when leading development teams, only a small proportion of the…