Magento
Magento is a high performance, scalable eCommerce solution for fast-growing and businesses and comes in two forms: Community and Enterprise. Both of which run off the same framework and have excellent ecoms ability.
Drupal
When Rippleffect first moved from Pimcore to Drupal, I was leading one of the development teams in my role as head of project management. Always one to rise to a challenge we picked up Drupal and started to pick it apart. It soon became apparent that it was a compelling piece of software. At the […]
WordPress
In the same way that Sitecore is my favourite paid for CMS, WordPress is absolutely my favourite open source product. It’s user interface is simplicity itself and anyone can install it. The biggest selling point has to be the wealth of plugins and themes meaning there’s almost certainly something out there which someone has already developed […]
CloudFlare
Cloudflare is one of my favourite best-kept secrets for building websites. It’s value for money and it “just works”. By this I mean it sits firmly within the XOX method for delivery. It’s easy to pick up, has little technical debt (most of the features work out of the box) and produces an output which is superb. I […]
What’s The Point to Pair Programming
Pair programming is a technique which essentially puts at least two developers on any given project at any time. So What’s The Point to Pair Programming? The main advantage of this is increasing the thinking power of the team to solve issues. In the same way a dual core processors is better (faster / more efficient) […]
Technical Debt, What is It
Technical debt is often an overlooked element of development but has far reaching implications on profit, delivery and quality of a project. What is Technical Debt I’ve taken the definition for my technical debt from “The Art of Agile Development“: “Technical Debt is the total amount of less-than-perfect design and implementation decisions in your project” How Technical […]
What Is Project Success
Like many questions in digital project management, this is a trickier to answer than most people initially think You’ll find numerous answers, differing in complexity but most will take the form of “client satisfaction” or “making a profit”. The term alone is simple but there’s usually more complex elements at work in the most simplest of terminology. […]