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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

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Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. This article will primarily focus on locating and evaluating development companies, rather than design firms. Or is your project a clean slate? Avoid them.

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. I like the Kanban board design for project management, which makes it easy to organize tasks by what stage of completion they’re in. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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This will protect all parties involved, ensuring your developer is treated fairly, your work is done in a timely manner and all expectations are met on both sides. Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

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For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing. If you can find a developer or development team then you’ll have the capabilities to tell you what is feasible, what is not, and then to actually build the thing.

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Lab Usability Testing: What, Why, How Much.

Occam's Razor

Early on in the blog I had talked about using surveys as a great way to have a continuous listening methodology when it comes to website visitors. In this post we’ll cover the grand daddy of UCD (User Centric Design) methodologies: Lab Usability Testing. Finally don’t forget to measure success post implementation.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.