Experience has taught us that the biggest risk of any project is developing the wrong thing. Being a product focused company, we prevent this by first understanding what the project needs. Only then do we choose the best tool for that job, based on requirements and dependencies.
Read MoreHacking the game with incremental objectives
Our A to A’ to B philosophy
Most software projects fail because they try to implement too much in just one iteration and end up building the wrong thing. This doesn’t only happen from a technical standpoint, but also from a business point of view. Real life examples are something along the lines of “let’s build a real estate platform” or “let’s build a high performance proxy”.
Read MoreKeeping the team in Sync
Transparency with our clients is key. And it’s just as important within the team. Every Thursday we hold a team meeting, without fail. The Weekly Sync is one of Vitamin Software’s most important alignment tools. It also helps team members acquire our values.
Read MoreBringing the Team together: Our big gathering in Bucharest
Our team is our pride!
It’s also distributed across 3 time zones, which is why we were really happy to have everyone meet up in Bucharest, at the Seneca Hub. For a week, all of us came together and worked at the same table. Here’s what we learned.
Read MoreJumping into a new project, in just a day
Whenever someone joins our team, they jump right into a project — on their first day. Our clients are surprised by the results and often ask us how we manage it. When did we have time to familiarize ourselves with the scope and requirements? Moreover, how can we switch to a project we’ve never worked on? And still deliver!
Read MoreAcross 3 time zones: how we make our distributed team work!
A unified team that works from several different locations can be a challenge. Especially when they’re in several different time zones. Not to mention that we work on projects spanning three continents.
Read MoreFrom scratch to product launch in just 3 months: A Real Estate Platform
Welcome to today’s edition of “what has Vitamin been launching lately?”. As promised, every once in a while we’ll give you some insights into what projects we solve. And this one was a doozy.
Read MoreHow We Built A High-Performance Proxy In 1 Month
We are always excited to release a project and deliver it into production, to watch it grow and prosper. Sharing is caring — which is why we want to give you some insights into the projects we’re working on.
Read MoreVitamin Software's: The Who
You are entering a manually curated repository of insights on problem solving. Everything you wanted to know about our international full stack development team, their challenges and accomplishments.
And we’re thrilled to have you here.
Read MoreKeeping up with the Joneses in Software Engineering
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to “keep up with the Joneses” is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.
Now, you’ll wonder what this has to do with software engineering. Well, we’ve identified a few trends that are honestly quite worrying.
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