Full recording of interview with Jared McGuire, Digital Products Innovation Lead @ Informulate 0:00 – 3:19 – Introductions and origin story 3:20 – 12:49 – Growth story at Informulate 12:50 – 25:04 – The Informulate difference when it comes to digital products 25:05 – 29:55 – Why are some projects successful while others are not? […]
Category: Development
Agile | Business | Development | Management | technical debt
Team performance and how to improve it can be viewed through a lot of different lenses: the AMP principle, storming/norming/performing, tribal knowledge, avoiding dysfunction, and so on. Those are all valid perspectives and powerful ones, and we – at Informulate – love our reading! That said, sometimes the most obvious basic truths remains unsaid – […]
Most codebases start out fresh, tidy, and easy to maintain. Over time, they fall behind on modern coding standards, extensibility, performance and other aspects. This is can be slow or rapid depending on the team. From this deterioration, Technical Debt is born and it begins its slow but inexorable gravitational pull on the software, the […]
Full recording of interview with Alan James, AI/ML Architect 0:00 – 3:44 – introductions and background 3:45 – 8:20 – Applications of AI 8:21 – 13:45 – How AI projects are different from regular development 13:46 – 16:15 – Typical use cases for AI/ML 16:16 – 18:15 – Statistical analysis, correlations and recommendation engines 18:16 […]
Are you still running Salesforce Classic? Are you wondering if and when you should upgrade to Lightning? Well, wonder no more because that time is NOW. Salesforce Lightning has been out for over 6 years now, it has delivered on what was promised, and there really is no reason for you to hold back. Wait, […]
If you have been running a custom Salesforce instance for a few years, you know that it is not cheap. Even a mid-sized instance can easily run into hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, and larger ones get into the millions if you include subscriptions, add-ons, and employee costs for the team responsible for […]
What is the right time to upgrade your application? It’s a hard question because it involves a prediction of future outcomes. But if you leave it to chance – chances are you won’t like the outcome. “Time is Relative.” – Albert Einstein Change is Hard The default mindset for all humans is to not fix something […]
Agile | Business | Development | Management
Are you Agile? If yes, are you using the term and some ceremony without truly embracing the philosophy? It’s important to refresh your understanding of what it means to be Agile and keep striving towards ever more Agility. And if you’re not Agile, start now! “There is room for everyone in Agile as long as you’re […]
Azure: It’s not just a nice color Windows Azure is Microsoft’s entry into the cloud. Microsoft was a little late to really get into the Cloud Computing party when compared to some cloud heavyweights like Amazon AWS (S3, EC2) and Google Apps/App Engine but nevertheless Windows Azure is a very strong entrant in its own […]