The Problem Right now, there are three application types within the Microsoft community: .NET Framework .NET Core Xamarin/Mono developers (For those not in the business, these are typically Web Application Developers, Cloud Service Developers, and Mobile App Developers respectively) As seen in the diagram below, we see that each stack references its own Base Library….
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Change Management for Our Lizard Brains
Being a keynote speaker at a conference is a high-profile role and expectations are high. I’ve heard many keynotes who have left me thinking about their message for a long time thereafter. At last year’s Project Summit*Business Analyst World conference in NYC, I had the good fortune to hear a memorable speaker and learn about…
Ng-conf 2017 Talks You Should Watch
Ng-conf 2017 was filled with a plethora of exciting and interesting talks and a great experience for everyone who was able to attend. As anyone who’s given a talk of their own can attest to, giving a tech talk is not an easy thing to do, and a completely separate skill from being a good…
Dear Agile: Scrum vs. Kanban
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a question for Dear Agile? Send it to us via our anonymous submission form. DEAR AGILE – How do you determine whether to use Scrum or Kanban on a given project? Some folks maintain that Kanban can (or at least should)…
9 Topics to Include in a Data Integration Bootcamp
ETL Developer, Data Integration Developer, Data Engineer – whatever you call the role, in our data-driven society there is increasing demand for people who can design, build and manage data workflows. While there are many new courses popping up at universities and other education institutions targeted at data science skillsets, these are often heavy on statistical analysis…
Dear Agile: Two-Week Sprints – Just Infinite Deadlines?
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a question for Dear Agile? Send it to us via our anonymous submission form. DEAR AGILE – I’m not a fan of the idea of two-week sprints. An infinite timeline of two-week deadlines seems crazy to me. Why does Scrum have…
5 Things I Wish I Had Known in the First 5 Years of My Career
If you’re just starting your career, wouldn’t you wish for some advice on how to navigate the work place? The habits you build during your first years will shape your career. So, taking the time to invest in building on a few healthy habits could go a long way. Here are snippets from a conversation…
Benjamin Franklin Invented Scrum
It’s hard to overstate Benjamin Franklin’s contributions to the world. A true polymath, Franklin is best known for his statesmanship and diplomacy, his scientific insight, and his creation of the Scrum software development methodology. Wait, what? Okay, Franklin was ahead of his time, but he wasn’t telling us how to build software more than 200…
Dear Agile: Trouble Getting Good Acceptance Criteria
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a question for Dear Agile? Send it to us via our anonymous submission form. Dear AGILE – I’m having trouble getting my team to create clear acceptance criteria on their user stories. This causes a lot of frustration. Do you have…
The Best New Feature of Angular 4
A team of Excellians recently attended ng-conf 2017 in Salt Lake City, UT, the premiere meeting of Google, Microsoft, open-source and community leaders for the Angular and AngularJS Projects. AngularJS Angular 1.x is now called AngularJS and has 1,000,000+ active developers still using it by Google’s accounting. This number is likely the peak for the…
