Lots of freelancers hate having to call up people on the phone and asking if they’ve got any work for them. If only there was a way you could get work while sipping some coffee, taking the kids to school or even sleeping… You’re busy and the internet is a big place, so this blog post aims to help you do your online marketing well and [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Over the past few months, Kubernetes has become a more mature product and setting up a cluster has become a lot easier. Especially with the official release of Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) on Amazon Web Services, another major cloud provider is able to provide a Kubernetes cluster with a few clicks. While the [...]
Bregt Coenen
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was without question one of the biggest stories of 2018. When the GDPR became enforceable in all European Union Member States on the 25th of May, it introduced quite a number of important changes that impacted organizations on processing the personal data of employees, customers, prospects, [...]
Jean-Pierre Bernaerts
As a freelancer, networking is pretty much inevitable. But it isn’t easy, and with corporate Christmas and New Year’s parties coming up, you’re bound to feel inclined to do some networking for some projects in the new year. Introverted people or people who think they’re no good at networking might have some difficulties, but conversely, [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Let’s start by asking how your product backlog is managed. How do items get on the backlog, and how do items get picked up from that backlog for development? Who does the former and who does the latter? In (software) product development, there usually are people with two important roles that divide these tasks between them. [...]
Pieter Hens
Time for our second monthly design review! Last time, Gert guided you through his design for the POI Service application for our client Lineas. This time we’ll look at something completely different: the design of a case study for the Museum pass project for our client publiq. First things first, what is a case study? Put simply, a case [...]
Ibn Renders
Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a well-known psychologist, wrote a book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow about behavioral economics. He discovered that the economy is not based on abstract mathematical and rational decisions, but rather on irrational decisions. In fact, he translates that into two systems in our brain. System 1 is the [...]
Pieter VD
Suppose you’re a Product Owner in an Agile delivery team, ready to get working on your product. In order to do that, you’ll need to give your development team a goal and a list of things to work on. If you use SCRUM as the framework, you’d call that list of things to work on a Product Backlog. From the SCRUM guide: The [...]
Jonas Van Poucke
We’ve said it a few times before: there are a ton of advantages to freelancing, such as choosing your own office hours, being your own boss, free choice of projects and clients, … Reasons enough to start your freelance career! But how do you actually do that? Here are the 5 steps to getting started as a freelancer. 1. Know why you want [...]
Stijn Schutyser
As promised in the blog post discussing our blog survey’s results and starting today, we’re doing a monthly showcase of a project which our designers are currently working on. Each month, a different team member gives a detailed explanation on their process, decision making or some insightful tips in order to share knowledge. Today, Gert [...]
Gert Bangels
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