For years, SmartMoney had project manager(s).  This was more of a necessity during our early years, when projects were large 9-12+ month long beasts.  Our projects were managed in a more classical software development approach commonly used at the time. Projects had weekly status meetings, pages of specs and documents that were always in need [...]

The blog has been live for about one month. I feel its going well (traffic is increasing), so I wondering what would you like to see in the blog to add more value to you? I am posting a very short (anonymous) survey to get some feedback, and see what might add more value for [...]

Semi-weekly wrap up of links, tidbits, and other sites that came across my plate.   Code, development, management, anything I found interesting since the last post.  Feel free to suggest other links in the comments. Web Tools 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools – Most people are going to be familiar with these tools, especially if [...]

I am a big advocate of keeping teams lean and knowledge sharing.  If you follow both of these ideas, you end up with a small, well balanced development team.  In order to build and keep a well balanced team you need to look for employees with a strong general technology background. For this reason, I [...]

Here at SmartMoney, we have been using iterative development techniques for years. Even before the term was made popular in the technology field, we ditched the long drawn out style of project development. For the most part, we now employ a more cyclical style of development where individual features are coded, tested, deployed. New features are added [...]

Today, I am going to post a little weekly wrap up of links, tidbits, and other sites that came across my plate. Anything that I found useful, and aids web development and/or team management.  This will not be a huge list of links, it will be tools I actually find to be practical and useful [...]