While the COVID-19 crisis has been building momentum for months it was only a few weeks ago that we were all conducting business as usual. Two weeks ago it began to hit home for us in the Bay Area. On Thursday, March 12th, Digital Foundry announced a voluntary work from home program to support the ...
Here at Digital Foundry, we’ve worked on hundreds of digital projects with the world’s top companies over the last 20+ years. In that time, we’ve employed a multitude of different approaches to product development. Currently, we utilize an Agile ecosystem using a Scrum framework, a popular workflow but one which we’ve fine tuned to our ...
Years ago I worked at a Japanese real estate management company in Los Angeles. The employees were a mixture of ethnicities, but the overarching business culture was Japanese. Each morning we started work in the same place, at the same time, in a circle facing each other for a traditional Japanese chorei. For a reason ...
Imagine that you have a fantastic idea for a mobile application. You even have a team that loves the concept. But, you hit a roadblock when you ask for budget approval. You make a valiant effort to mock out your idea in PowerPoint, spend a few days with Balsamiq or Sketch, but the results are ...
A couple development environments worth considering Every Digital Foundry software engineer has their own development environment for their project. It is a common best practice used in the industry, and we have been following it for 20 years. In the past, this meant every time an engineer moved from one project to another they ...
Three Software Development Tools Worth Considering Think of a software developer’s toolkit as your handyman’s tool belt. There are many types of wrenches and screwdrivers, and in some cases even the “wrong” tool will ultimately get the job done. The problem is that it’ll take longer and might not be built as sturdy as ...
