You Want Faster Meetings – Here’s How
Digital Product Development Leveling UpWe don’t necessarily like meetings, but they are core to doing business. How well a meeting is run affects meeting quality, and quality often...
Write What You Know
Leveling UpOne of the distinguishing features of Big Nerd Ranch I’ve seen at my time here is a focus on *recording knowledge*. On our projects,...
Six Techniques to Split Large Stories
Digital Product Development Leveling UpYou may be convinced that splitting up large stories is the right thing to do, but sometimes it seems impossible, no matter how hard...
Nine Reasons to Split Large Stories
Leveling UpIt’s very common in agile development to have the goal of keeping stories small. Sometimes splitting up a large story is easy, but other...
Agile Software Development: Architecture Patterns for Responding to Change – Part 3
iOS Leveling UpIn Part 3, John Daub completes his series on how to best architect code to be better positioned to respond to change.
Agile Software Development: Architecture Patterns for Responding to Change – Part 2
iOS Leveling UpResponding to change is a key tenant of Agile Software Development. Predicting change is difficult, but software can be developed in a manner that...
Agile Software Development: Architecture Patterns for Responding to Change – Part 1
Clients iOS Leveling UpResponding to change is a key tenant of Agile Software Development. Predicting change is difficult, but software can be developed in a manner that...
Using SpriteKit to Create Engagement and Turn Your Users Into Participants
Design iOS Leveling UpInspired by the Washington Post's portent COVID-19 simulations, this article explores how user-engagement can be crafted in iOS apps using SpriteKit to more effectively...
We’re Taking the Ranch Online – Part 1
Leveling Up TrainingWhile we continue to believe that there’s no substitute for immersive, in-person training, we recognize that, unfortunately, the current situation simply does not allow...
Validating Proof of Concepts before Data Collection
Leveling Up Machine LearningUnless your company already has systems in place when questions about what machine learning can do for your for company, the data road block...
A Quick BNR Guide to Remote Working
Leveling Up Remote WorkSome tips, tricks, and best practices from the Nerds Working remotely is woven into the fabric of our daily lives at Big Nerd Ranch....
Git Smudge and Clean Filters: Making Changes So You Don’t Have To
Git Leveling UpOops… I Didn’t Mean To Commit That Sometimes software development requires us to make local changes to files to perform our daily work, but...
