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This article was originally written by me for yourstory.in. But this version is more “complete” with all of the original links in place.

This was originally supposed to be a post on predictions. But as the founder of a mobile app development company myself, my focus is more on specific opportunities that exist for a boutique company [...]

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Agile development is an art. Unless each member on the team has the a-ha moment and actually ‘gets’ the core values of the process – the end result is nothing but a hodge-podge of buggy code delivered after a lot of unnecessary stress.
So how do we tranform into an agile team and then continually propagate [...]

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Software Development as a balance

Published on 09 February 2011 by Vaidy in All Posts, Process

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Why is delivering good software on a consistent basis hard? There are many existing answers to this question already. This is our version.
A list of things good software should achieve:

Should solve a real problem
Should be shipped and maintained within the budgeted cost and time
Should be easy to use

Update: We’ve now migrated to James Shore’s definition:
“Success is [...]

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Our new reading list

Published on 09 February 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Business, Process

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As mentioned in an earlier post, our team shares what they learn on a daily basis in our morning stand-ups. Considering our primary focus as a company is lean product development, we felt we could be more aligned with our goals if each of us read books [or blogs] on related subjects. Here’s the current [...]

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Our Pragmatic Processes

Published on 29 January 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Process

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One of the things we do is to create a culture of continuous improvement. To help ourselves stay on track and not lose sight of the forest for the trees, we do the following:

We do our standups a little different. We talk about what we learned yesterday than what we got done. Credit for this [...]

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Learnings from 2009

Published on 29 January 2010 by Vaidy in All Posts, Business

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2009 was a year of many special events. We completed 2 years of operations last year. We moved to a new more spacious office. We created our first product. We discovered our niche [more on this in the coming weeks].
But those events are nothing more than punctuations in this journey we’ve embarked on. Its the [...]

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