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Measuring requirements and design effectiveness in software projects
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:34 pm
posted by Seth Taylor
Good user experience is critical to a good software product, especially a software product delivered within the confines and quirks of modern web browsers. For this reason all design and requirements gathering activities at Accolo are performed by full time…




Agile Development Off-shore and Problems with the Backlog
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:49 pm
posted by Seth Taylor
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Agile software development off-shore. In that post I mentioned that the single most important item when planning and managing an Agile project off-shore was a well developed, force-ranked backlog of development priorities.…




Follow up - Outsourcing for Impact and VC money
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:25 am
posted by YoCC
I was chewing on some numbers over the weekend that tie together my post on Friday about the use of VC funds and the post of a few weeks ago about outsourcing for financial impact.
Let’s say we…




Where is your VC funding going?
Friday, August 22, 2008 9:26 am
posted by YoCC
Accolo raised a Series B round in June of 2007 from Altos Ventures with three goals in mind:
1) Finally get ahead of the hiring curve on the Client Services side of our business…




Agile Development Off-shore
Monday, August 04, 2008 12:14 pm
posted by Seth Taylor
At Accolo, we identified a specific product development opportunity and went out and secured a small round of funding to support it. After we shored up the round of funding we took a look at what we were trying…





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