What started as an alternative way to work for some has become a way of life for millions. Remote work is growing; more people are working remotely for part of their week, and even more, are working remotely for companies full time. Given today’s technologies, remote work has become possible for professionals in many
Agile Planning - Creating and Reaping the Benefits of an Agile Organization The legendary boxer Mike Tyson once said, "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." While Tyson has plenty of areas of personal weakness, his ability to approach a boxing match in an agile manner was unmatched. He fully
AI and HR. HR is widely regarded as one of those ‘human’ jobs that will be hard to replace with AI. It’s similar to psychology and other domains that require a high level of EQ, communication skills, and profound personal touch.
How do you outsource better? How do you manage your remote development and contract technical workforce? How do you keep them engaged?
At Sphere we understand the benefits of remote team productivity tools - we’ve tried them all because our teams work around the world. Here are our picks.
OVERVIEW The client - developers of a proprietary secondary loan marketplace that automated the process of combining and splitting loans across multiple lenders - wanted to provide immutable smart contract access for all buyers and sellers. BLOCKCHAIN CONSULTING REQUIREMENTS The client wanted a tamper-evident, immutable digital transaction ledger for a private network of participating peers.
After our TechDebate in London earlier this year, I had the opportunity to have a follow-up conversation with one of the panelists, Dominique Guinard who is the founder and CTO of EVRYTHNG. We discussed his views on the direction of the IOT. To attend future debates register at techdebates.org. We’re always on the look-out for
Christoph Burgdorfer is the Emerging Technologies Director for Asteria. This spring, Christoph participated in a TechDebates.org forum in London, where the panel discussed how the physical and digital worlds are coalescing. Christoph and I were able to explore the topic from a slightly different perspective after the TechDebate. Could you start by explaining a little
Improving Process, People, and Culture to Boost Remote Productivity Without proper communication and process, working with remote consultants can be difficult. In the broadest sense, it can be a problem of context. Without context, remote workers rarely understand the “why” regarding their actions. Why should they make certain software changes? Will it help the
Improving the Speed of Manual Testing Manual testing requires a significant amount of time, especially if you’re testing a lengthy list of settings with multiple parameters without any tool. The next time you do that kind of work you’ll definitely want a specialized tool to save your time and sanity. We found a series
