In our last coding challenge post, we posted question 3 from our coding challenge. Did you try it yourself? Here’s the question again, as a reminder:
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Development methodology: Agile and Scrum
A development methodology is a set of processes which can be employed to ensure quality, timeliness of delivery and confidence in the success of the project.
Every software project requires a development methodology of some kind, and picking the right one, and using it correctly, is vital to the success of that project.
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Softwire Speed Coding Challenge – An Introduction
Softwire recently hosted their second speed coding challenge, after the inaugural competition proved to be a resounding success. The competition was open to current employees (and recently departed interns) and was designed to give everyone a chance to show off their ability to code solutions to a variety of problems in as short a time as they can!
Over the course of the next few months, I’ll be adding some details of the questions that were asked and discussing the winning answers (as well as announcing the eventual winner). In this post, I’ll explain the format of the night and the scoring system used and will give you the first question, so you can give it a shot yourself!
Photo walk
Shortly before Christmas a number of intrepid Softwire employees braved the cold and went out on the inaugural Softwire Photo Walk. We started at the Tower of London and, over the course of an afternoon, crossed Tower Bridge and walked west along the south bank of the Thames before finishing back in the warm with some beer and food.
There were four categories for inspiration – Water, Urban, People, and Close-up, but everyone was of course free to take whatever photos caught their eye. Here’s a selection of the photos we came back with.
How we run a software company: Monitoring commercial progress
Some important questions for any business in a service industry are:
- How does each individual know what they spent their time on last week, and how much more time they need to spend?
- How do they communicate this to the people who need to know?
- What should the company do with this information once they’ve collected it?
I’ll give Softwire’s answers to these below.
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Things you might see around Softwire: Ducks
There are some new additions to the Softwire office. We expect these new recruits to help us with software development, without saying anything!
It’s long been known that the very act of explaining a problem out loud can, by itself, be enough to solve it. So we’re asking our developers to explain their problems (with their code, their customers or anything else) to their duck in the first instance. If this is successful we’ll save a fortune on task managers.
If anyone’s sceptical, my favourite benefit of “rubber ducking” is this one. Rubber ducks don’t gossip about your private problems with other rubber ducks.
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