Exelaration

Does Your Team Have a Ban on Learning?

by Steve Cooper | Feb 17, 2021 | Exelaration

The quote landed with a thud. “On our project, we don’t want anyone learning on the job.” Someone said this to me in a meeting, and I couldn’t get it out...

Three Ways Digitization Can Help Your Business

by Andrew Lindberg | Feb 04, 2021 | Digital Service Delivery

Chances are you’ve heard about “digitization” for your business, but what does this actually mean? Digitization is simply the transformation of analog data to a digital format. From a business perspective,...

Code is NOT the Most Important Output of Your Software Development Team… Here’s Why

by Steve Cooper | Oct 26, 2020 | Exelaration

The job title “software developer” could not be more straightforward. The output is software, or code, and, if this is your job title, you probably have the impression that you’re measured...

Pros and Cons of a Custom Content Management System

by Andrew Lindberg | Oct 07, 2020 | Exelaration

A Content Management System (CMS) is an application (typically a web-browser based application) for the purpose of developing, curating, and organizing content for a website. WordPress is perhaps the most well-known,...

What We Learned by Making Our Internship Remote

by Matt McHugh | Aug 17, 2020 | Exelaration

The COVID-19 global pandemic forced businesses all over the world to quickly adapt their daily operations to be more remote-friendly. Unfortunately, many businesses also decided to cancel their summer internship programs...

A Most Opportune Moment: Whose Careers Are Damaged Most by Remote Work?

by Steve Cooper | Jul 23, 2020 | Exelaration

I was 22 years old and my stomach churned as I approached the Arthur Andersen Consulting headquarters in Washington, DC, on a steamy June morning. I was reporting for work on...

Are You Asking Your Technical Recruits the Right Questions?

by Andrew Lindberg | Jun 30, 2020 | Exelaration

One of easiest missteps when recruiting a for a position like software developer is being overly focused on ensuring the “minimum required skills” parameters of the position are met and losing...

How to Know When to Refactor the Architecture of an App

by Andrew Lindberg | May 18, 2020 | Exelaration

Changing the architecture of an existing application is one of the more challenging projects to undertake and complete successfully. It can be difficult for the technical team and the non-technical stakeholders...

Virtual Recruiting: An Exelaration Team Member Perspective

by Eric Eells | Apr 20, 2020 | Exelaration

No one was planning for a global pandemic to happen this spring. Especially not over spring break (the first one, that is) when I was enjoying the sunset in Myrtle Beach!...

The Biggest Problem with the Tech Talent Pipeline (and How to Fix It)

by Steve Cooper | Feb 19, 2020 | Exelaration

The biggest crisis in the tech world today has been well-documented, and it’s even larger than you think. The tech talent shortage is growing exponentially as the demand for experienced technologists...

How to Not Be in the Center of a Software Firestorm

by Allen Tuggle | Feb 07, 2020 | Digital Service Delivery

Writing software is already difficult; writing software fast is near impossible. And yet we perceive companies are doing it all the time when, in fact, they are not.  What makes some...

Must-Have Skills Tech Students Need Before Graduating

by Allen Tuggle | Feb 03, 2020 | Exelaration

How do you deliver professional, high quality, easy-to-maintain code to your customers and clients if your team doesn’t even know what professional, high quality, easy-to-maintain code really means? You don’t! It’s...