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How to Manage Multi-Language Open Source SDKs on GitHub: Best Practices & Tools

Leave a Comment / All, Architecture, Backend, Software Project Management / Armando Lena Rodriguez

Introduction In modern software development, Software Development Kits (SDKs) play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between APIs and developers. Managing an open-source SDK project on GitHub that supports multiple programming languages can be challenging, but it also presents an opportunity to deliver a scalable and robust product. This article explores best practices and […]

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Applying the Six Thinking Hats to Business Analysis

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Ines Carrasqueira

Imagine that you are in the complex process of decision making and would like to know how to make this process easier and smoother. Do you know there are methodologies, frameworks, models, that can ease this? The aim of this article is to show how the methodology of Six Thinking Hats can help you in

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Team Management: Enhancing leadership and collaboration

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Ariadna Trueba

In the field of organizational management we often encounter deficiencies and opportunities for improvement, especially when faced with recurring challenges in our daily work. To effectively address these issues, it is essential to establish a methodology that allows structuring and developing continuous improvement processes that manages reliable identification, organization and solution of these problems. One

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What is a Delivery Manager, and what do they do?

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Alejandro Figueroa

A role familiar to many. However, for a long time, many have wondered, what does a Delivery Manager actually do? What is their scope, and can their role be merged with another? By definition, a Delivery Manager is the person who makes sure that the Product is delivered. It is the bridge between the Product

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What is a Business Analyst, and what do they do?

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Ines Carrasqueira

After several years of working as a Business Analyst, commonly referred to as a “BA” in the industry, I have found that I struggle at times to explain what I do, particularly to people that have never worked as one, or with one. Even people within the industry, who are familiar with the term, still

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Continuous Delivery: What is it?

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Alejandro Ferrandiz

Continuous delivery is a methodology in which teams automatically push high quality items from the source code repository to production on a regular basis. This allows you to receive early feedback on the quality and effectiveness of your final product. Some companies manually release products by passing them from one team to another. In this

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Agile teams – what the evidence tells us

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Geoff Goodhew

One of the key building blocks of agile is the small team. Regardless of the agile framework being used, teams are where work is done. The effectiveness of teams is critical to the effectiveness of agile. Which begs the question, “What do we know about teams?” The good news is we know a lot about

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Why is Business Analysis important?

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Jaquelina Fernandez

Over the last 10 years, having a Business Analyst as part of any project team has become increasingly common, especially in agile environments, and I think I might know the reason… but first things first! What is Business Analysis? According to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®) and as a general definition we can

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The Power of Empowerment

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Alejandro Almunia

Empowerment and Agile The first foundation of Agile is to empower individuals. Power in organisations is the control of decisions, resources, rewards, rules, and practices. Empowerment is to move power from central leadership to individuals and teams across the organisation. In this post, I outline the modern, widely studied theory of empowerment and look closely

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Agile Foundations

Leave a Comment / All, Software Project Management / Alejandro Almunia

The 5 foundations needed to master Agile It’s almost 20 years since the agile manifesto was written, drawing on software engineering methodologies that had been evolving for several decades. Today, agile is the dominant approach to building software and many engineers have only ever worked in agile approaches. But agile is a practice that is

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