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How User Experience Analysis Improves Delivery
User Experience Analysis helps you better understand your users' pain points, but it also improves delivery. Learn how a UX Product Review can lead to better product roadmaps and ultimately a more successful product.Accessibility of Digital Products
Back in 1991, the world wide web wasn’t the robust information highway it is today, and digital accessibility was left out of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This act applies not only to federal government entities (Title I), but also to state and local government (Title II), as well as businesses that are open to the public (Title III). Now that we live in a digital age, digital accessibility issues have become more evident and problematic, with lawsuits over digital accessibility continuing to rise year- over- year.Case Study: Leveraging APIs to Build a Mobile App for the Manufacturing Segment
One of our partners, a large manufacturing company, identified a need to create a mobile application that would be utilized by their internal sales and support staff. They turned to Source Allies to build this mobile application for them not only to solve a pain point they were having but...Consulting 101 Part 3: Partner Dynamics
Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. In this third and final part we will be discussing partner dynamics.Consulting 101 Part 2: Team Dynamics
Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. In this second post we will be talking about Team Dynamics.Consulting 101 Part 1: Agile Crash Course
Recently Akrem and Erick presented Consulting 101, an annual presentation delivered at a Source Allies University event. We are publishing a three-part blog series that is a distillation of that presentation. This first post is a crash course on Agile.Vim in Twelve More Keys
Join me as we head back to the wonderful world of vim. This time we're going to cover some of the more advanced features of vim to make your text editing as smooth as possible.Case Study: Financial Services Cloud Native Data Lake
A Fortune 500 financial services partner wanted to transform their future actuarial community, re-engineer and automate manual workflows, and modernize technology tools to gain a competitive position in the market. We began with a customer-focused approach. Because the end-users consisted of the actuarial community and resident data scientists, we first strove to...Case Study: Leveraging Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Best Practices
Source Allies saw an opportunity for our partner, a Fortune 500 agriscience company, to accelerate their digital transformation. In its current state, there were a dozen software development teams working on the same product who did not have confidence in the stability of their current cloud infrastructure and deployment environments....Brag a Bit
The day-to-day work of a software developer is diverse. We are assigned a main project to work on that takes most of our focus but unexpected work can arise since software development is such a team-based activity. Examples of out of the ordinary work may be helping track down a...