Product & Design

Here are 5 strategies that can help to sell my boss on agile, depending on their management style.

Creating useful software is a craft. There is no black and white formula for success. Yet, there are certain Agile engineering practices that, if used thoughtfully, have shown to repeatedly add value to a business.

Learn about 5 common usability mistakes in product design and how you can avoid making them through the perspective of Design consultant, Alice Toth.

Gone are the days of endless meetings of tech teams pouring over project timelines, only to see the v1 of their product released months or years later.

Learn about Spring Planning, from the view of a developer!

Agile development isn’t just a series of principles: it’s a mindset that defines agile team structure and the process of building high performance teams.

Estimating takes a lot of time, but we can't abolish it altogether. The #noestimates movement ignores one basic truth—it is fair for a stakeholder to ask, “How much is this going to cost?” Read why I think estimates are a waste of time and what we should be doing instead.

When companies to enter into contracts for Agile work, processes and deliverables, we still see Waterfall language. Here's how to make your contract Agile.

Agile is often discussed as a methodology: a framework for developing software. At Stride, Agile isn’t just a process we apply to a software project; it’s how we approach both technology and business. It’s a way of thinking and behaving. It’s fundamental to what we do both inside the code we write, as well as inside all of our operational and strategic practices.

Learn how to build an agile feedback loop from the perspective of two Striders

I was asked these questions recently and thought it would be useful to all. When it comes to Agile and communication, there are many opinions out there.

Customized Agile: Increasing Fluidity of Agile Practices Across Teams

Learn about the challenges and opportunities that come along with building booking software from folks who have built booking and reservation software.

Learn about digital twins and how they can help you achieve the business outcomes you're looking for.

Learn about the four agile principles for business transformation to grow your success

Learn more about adding launch plans to your agile processes and how they can add value in ensuring your team's success.

From day 1, Stride Consulting has put diversity and inclusion at the forefront and it has paid off in spades. Let me be clear - diversity is not simply a gender issue. Truly diverse teams have people that bring a rainbow of perspectives and experiences to the table.

Learn how A/B testing can improve website conversion rates and enhance the user experience.

Learn how to build product prototypes in your design process!

Learn how to create a storyboard sketch to help illustrate the design of user experience.

Learn how creating a winning product vision framework can drive your team to success.

Learn how to create a workflow for design and how it can boost your success.

Learn about the importance of designing for accessibility and how it can significantly impact your product.

Learn how to do great UX research with the resources you have available. There are plenty of no cost options to help you with your user experience project!

Here are the key variables to consider when evaluating the top agile software development agencies.

Learn about how you can help developers code their sites and web applications accessibly.

Agile has grown in popularity in recent years. Learn its advantages, drawbacks, and how to use it in a way that's right for your team.

An IPM is a meeting for the whole team to gather and discuss upcoming work and align on what needs to be done next.

Learn about the importance of web accessibility, the requirements, and how design choices impact your users.

Agile software development teams thrive on collaboration and communication. Successful teams often highlight their cross-functionality, integrating concerns from engineering, product and design- but they can also benefit from integrating a less talked-about concern: QA.

When embarking on Agile, many teams start with Scrum.  Sooner or later, they inquire about XP.  Is there one 'right' way of implementing Scrum and XP? Do you 'have' to do both?

Find out the seven key benefits of Agile programming you should be aware of, as you’re making a decision for your own team.

Learn how to start budgeting and stop estimating for your agile projects through the lens of Stride Founder, Debbie Madden.

Learn how Stride Agile approach fuels effective transformation!

Stride Tech Talk: David J Bland on 3rd Wave Agile

Tech Talk: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins

Read about the importance of aligning your team around your company's product vision.

Ubiquitous Language defines the thinking of the team on a development project.

Pair programming is a great strategy to streamline agile software development. Follow these tips to optimize the experience and produce better software.

The Planning Onion is a product management concept that helps teams structure and frame different levels of planning. Learn more about The Planning Onion.

Learn about Domain Driven Design and how this approach can benefit your team in Product Discovery.

Learn secrets from agile engineering teams that will boost your team morale, improve communication, and drive productivity.

Learn how extreme programming and agile methodologies can help to benefit your working style if you are neurodiverse.

This article is about estimates in a relatively perfect world. It is not about problems that teams run into when dealing with estimates in a world where estimates are often misunderstood and where parties try to pile up additional meanings and metrics to estimates.

Much to learn, we still have about agile methodology. From the Mandalorian's ways, insights we can gain. Agile, the way is. Strong, we will be.

Read about how Alice Toth, UX Lead at Stride Consulting, approaches UX to implement a rapid, iterative design process that scales.

Learn more about high-fidelity wireframes, what they are and how they can help you build off your low-fidelity wireframes.

Learn more about what are low-fidelity wireframes and how they're essential for the design process.

Read more about user personas, what they are and how they help to make a better product for your team.

Learn about dual-track agile and how it works in your agile development process.

Learn about what a process flow is and the purpose it serves in UX design.

When and how to build a minimum viable product (MVP).

Learn how Designer, Alice Toth, approaches when and where to use low-fidelity design in her projects.

Site accessibility focuses on making a website’s content accessible to everyone, including those with disabilities.

Communication breakdown is common in teams, and not enough is done to stop the cycle. Here are 5 secrets that can restore the way teams communicate.

Learn about a high impact method to designing software through the perspective of a Strider

Learn about lean concepts in software development and how you can eliminate waste from your agile process.

Learn how meal prepping can help you understand WIP!

Learn from Stride's Head of Product how product managers create a virtuous cycle by continuously translating value to work.

Learn five proven steps that can help you improve customer conversions through web performance optimization.

Maturity models rank you against a generic ladder. Why measuring code quality, delivery stability, and adoption together against your best teams is the real signal.

It's your choice: build a responsive web app with a front-end Javascript library like React.js or a native mobile app with a language like Objective-C or Swift.

Why does estimating developer hours lead to trouble so frequently? Learn why we are too optimistic in our estimations, and what we can do to fix it.

Read about whether or not it makes sense to assign points to a spike from the perspective of Senior Consulting Software Developer, Brian Lam.

The Enterprise Guide To Launching MVPs

Learn about the intersection of design and engineering and how incorporating designers can benefit your agile process.

Find out how to focus on slow and steady growth and prioritize team efficiency in our latest blog.

Take a look at lean development vs waterfall development as demonstrated by the Galactic Empire’s development of the two Death Stars.