In the fast-paced world of real estate software technology, making the most of every hour can make or break success. Many types of knowledge work, especially software development, are inherently complex and often subject to unexpected obstacles … Read More
Learn Fast
Fail fast. This is a phrase we hear a lot, but listening and practicing are two completely different things. No one likes failing. No one wants to release a product that isn’t perfect, but sometimes, you must … Read More
Great Expectations: Software Engineers
When we chat with professionals in the Software Engineering community, we often hear painful stories from their work lives. “An engineer spent a week building a new feature only to discover a teammate changed a critical interface … Read More
Finding Momentum: Why Pace is More Important than Position
An industry partner recently praised our CEO for the speed at which we were executing on our strategic plan. The praise felt particularly good because the industry partner had some insight into our competitors. In comparison to … Read More
Quality as a Responsibility, Not a Role
There are all kinds of checks and balances that can be put into place, and much planning and preparation that comes with the territory of ensuring high-quality software. But sometimes – despite our best efforts – errors … Read More
Removing All Confusion: Expectations of a Product Manager
We’ve written a lot about Product Management. Nikki wrote a blog post about how to find a good position when you’re searching. There is another post about how the title “Product Manager” can mean so many different … Read More
10 Minutes Could Save You On More Than Car Insurance: How We Take Time to Build Quality In
Many modern software teams do not give enough attention to the quality of their work. We spend a lot of time improving our processes of how we write and deploy code and delivering great products that our … Read More
The Super Powers of Full Stack: Fracturing Responsibilities Fractures Results
To many, the term full-stack development may sound like a buzz word that is just a trendy concept, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. As the title suggests, it does give your development team superpowers. … Read More
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls: Give Feedback and Cycle Time a Little TLC
Getting customer feedback quickly is vital to the success of any development team. The days of spending months building features before the customer sees the product is a thing of the past. The waterfall has long since … Read More
7 Lean Principles at Realtracs
The Realtracs’ product development team applies the seven Lean principles to our software processes. These principles – based on the Toyota Production System and adapted for software by Mary and Tom Poppendieck in Lean Software Development – … Read More