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Design, Software Development, User Experience

How to Effectively Critique: Bringing Design and Development to the Table

In October I had the opportunity to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in...

.NET, Developer Tools, Software Development

Entity Framework Core: The Cross Platform ORM for .Net

What is Entity Framework? Entity Framework (EF) has been an important part of the Microsoft...

Developer Tools, Software Development, Tools

3 Tips for Integrating Jenkins Job DSL Plugin

Creating and editing jobs in Jenkins is a tedious and error-prone task. A Jenkins server...

Software Development, Training

It’s Okay to Be Different

Having different ideas and opinions, shared by no one but yourself, can be lonely and...

Software Development, UI/UX, User Experience

Evaluating User Experience with Heuristics

“Designers shooting for usable is like a chef shooting for edible.” – Aaron Walter, VP...

Business Analysis, Software Development, User Experience

5 Tips for Conducting User Interviews

As a new UX professional, performing a user interview can be a daunting task. Your...

.NET, Developer Tools, Software Development

How to Nail Your Next Tech Interview: Arrays vs. Lists

We interview a lot of people at Excella. Many people we interview for developer positions...

.NET, Developer Tools, Software Development

5 Myths About .Net

Microsoft released the first beta version of the .Net Framework to the public in late...

Agile, Agile Requirements, Business Analysis, Change Management, Data Analysis, Software Development, UI/UX

USAJOBS: How We Are Doing It

This September marked the 20-year anniversary of USAJOBS.gov, the Federal Government’s online career portal and...

Agile, Business Analysis, Scrum, Software Development, UI/UX, User Experience

UX for an Agile World (Part IV)

Here’s the big pay-off.  We learned in Parts 1, 2, and 3, why UX and...

Agile, Business Analysis, Scrum, Software Development, UI/UX, User Experience

UX for an Agile World (Part III)

More and more, the development world is embracing Agile practices.  As we learned in Part...