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Principes of Agile
Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
We follow these principles:
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery
of valuable software.
Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development. Agile processes harness change for
the customer’s competitive advantage.
Deliver working software frequently, from a
couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference to the shorter timescale.
Business people and developers must work
together daily throughout the project.
Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they need,
and trust them to get the job done.
The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a development
team is face-to-face conversation.
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able
to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Continuous attention to technical excellence
and good design enhances agility.
Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount
of work not done–is essential.
The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how
to become more effective then tunes and adjusts
its behavior accordingly.
– http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Git workflows
Confused about how to work with Git? You soon will not be confused, it is a well designed and versatile essential tool for remote development.
2. Gitflow architecture (also covered in article 1.)
Remote Development uses the Gitflow branching model. Simply put:
0. Initial steps
git init
git remote add origin git@softwareantelope.com/project-repo.git
git fetch1. Developer checks out Master branch
git checkout master2. Developer checks out a new feature branch
git checkout -b feature/my-new-feature3. Developer work on and commits to feature branch
4. Developer pushes the feature branch to origin
First time:
git push -u origin feature/my-new-featureSubsequently:
git push5. Developer issues a pull request for the feature branch into Master
Simple?
The admin maintains the git repository, and collects ssh-keys (public) from each developer so that they can login to git@softwareantelope.com without a password.
The git admin checks the new feature branch, and notes any migrations that are required. When the PR is approved it is merged into the staging branch. Developers can now check their branches have been correctly merged into the staging branch and flags the branch as releasable if it does not cause issues.
At the end of the sprint, the admin builds a new server instance for live and switches to it after applying any updates. The staging branch is now merged with the Master branch. Developers can continue to work in their feature branches by merging master into their branch on the new sprint.
ANY FAILURE along the way is immediately notified to the admin so it can be fixed before it becomes a major exercise. Remember keep your branch atomic and up to date with the latest master.
Conflicts
Provided that developers work on separate concerns conflicts are kept to a minimum. Conflicts are resolved by the Admin using the simple “important branches first” principle.
Solo Developers
These rules apply to teams. They are also adhered to for developers who are single-handed on a project. It allows control, accountability, backup and many other advantages.
Advantages for Clients and Agencies
There is great future for Remote Development. We understand there must be advantages for clients: less cost, more work, more accountability, less investment. More time. Less expense.
Agencies can get in on the ground floor of what is obviously the future. We can defeat the evils of a lack of talented developers in the market and the solve the problem addressed by IR35 (an independent business being treated as an employee).
Remote Developers are more able to deliver to budget for an entire project than onsite teams. Staff expenses can be avoided for project work, reducing risk and time to market.
As well as a competitive daily rate, RemoteDevelopment.co.uk invoices at the end of each Sprint. Of course only tested deliverables are included, with Sprint planning for the next Sprint.
Professional pride is at stake – each two-week sprint must deliver results.
A costed budget for an MVP (minimum viable product) is more likely to achieve working software fast. Accurate quoting for an Agile project is not the issue. Working within budget and delivering useful results is the issue.
An expectation of evolution during the journey may mean extra Sprints are required.
Predictable cost. Rapid results that are tested on a Staging Server and Test Driven Development are all parts of a new way to get your software goals achieved within budget.
Motivations and Rewards
Am I the right developer for your project? How can you tell?
As a contract developer, the first question a client asks me is “what is your rate?” If I am the only person available with the skills, my rate should be different than if I am competing for a job. It is like asking “how hungry are you?”
There is a problem with knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing: how do you know in advance what something should cost? Oh, “The market set the price”, I hear you say. “The market is king!” Really? Do you want to motivate developers toward technical excellence?
A “rate” is not necessarily a “quality differentiator”. One technology could get the job done in one day, another may take a week. Which do you want to pay for? You simply want to buy experience.
Developers may have financial motivations, sure. But is that the primary motivation? Is technical progress not a more powerful motivation? Every developer I have worked with is motivated by technical advances and invention.
Invention. That is what we look for in a developer – have you invented anything? Remote Developers do not need a “rate” – they work to achieve your business goals, take pride in progress and charge a fair fee against a budget. Why? Because we are inventors, not employees. A budget is simply a scope. A scope will creep and efforts to stop clients changing their mind are simply futile.
If you want to create a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to test your idea on the web, you will want us to work to your budget. You want us to be motivated to get results. To develop using the latest and greatest software methods.
Your budget gives us a scope to explore new technologies or to simply employ what we tried already. Innovation may cost more. Or it may result in a better product that works for you.
It comes down to communication.
You may need to review your budget when your MVP needs to be extended to create a working business proposition.
We believe it is best to mark progress and provide clients with technical proficiency. A budget simply provides predictability
Action Speak
“Next, we are going to add the ability of the user to …” promises the website.
What do you think? Is the promise of something new necessary?
Or a developer raves, “the next version will increase sales with this very smart new widget”.
Can you use something promised before it is released?
Or a client asks “Will you get this, and this … oh, and this … done by the deadline?” – the correct answer is “no”. A promise is not something that has much value when it is not followed by action. You hear it all the time, “we are going to…”, “the next version will…”
How do we do better?
We only talk about what we have done, what is included in a Sprint, and then only after we have tested it on an integration test on the staging server. If it fails, it fails. We want failure during testing because it means we have coverage. There is no point in releasing code to deliver on a “promise” if, in the end, it is not going to work. There is far more pain for releasing code that is not yet quite right.
RemoteDevelopment.co.uk does not make promises (except in Javascript code). We plan to deliver integrated functionality when it is ready and tested. We plan what is in our Sprint and then it is our own professional pride that delivers those results.
Okay, we do not know what the client will ask for during a Sprint, we add these new ideas to the next Sprint rather than delay planned and agreed to stages of a delivery.
Instead of raving about how it will look in the future, deliver results you have agreed to now. Stable, proven results. Then your client can rave about them for you.
Post to Linked In 25 October 2017
RemoteDevelopment.co.uk has launched its first ecommerce site co-production – a project for an artist who makes unique works for children – art4kids.gallery – see https://www.remotedevelopment.co.uk/cms/first-clients/ – implemented in WordPress with Woocommerce/Stripe hosted on an Nginx Cloud server. Just in time for unusual Xmas gift ideas, I was told.
Remote Development is a project I started on a train journey to a client site. The train was delayed. How much is this costing? Years of working in Agile teams and dealing with clients directly as well as contracting via agencies provided the motivation to provide a remote development vehicle. Remote Development is my contracting services delivered directly for clients more efficiently, for less expense. At this stage we are looking for seed clients to grow the business, as we slowly add qualified developers who are able to prove themselves.
Next I am looking for our first Full Stack Remote Development Project Client – if you want a project completed for less with Laravel/VueJS or Angular… remote contracting is proving less expensive than onsite contracting follow the links in the article and send us your enquiry.
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Remote Development is professional contracting services delivered directly for clients more efficiently, for less expense. At this stage, we are looking for seed clients to grow the business, as we slowly add qualified developers who are able to prove themselves. Instead of funding a startup with huge upfront investment to build a huge company, I believe this can grow organically. Instead of creating a software company that owns products, RemoteDevelopment.co.uk can schedule and implement CMS/E-commerce sites swiftly, using an Agile framework, to successfully deliver and host user-created content.
Clients who want to take things further with online applications, or corporate clients who normally hire experienced developers on contract can employ our skills. Onsite contracting is subject to IR35 scrutiny, and in fairness to employees who are committed to a company, there has to be a difference or separation between
There is a natural conflict – clients want to know what a contractor will cost, a contractor asks what the budget is. Negotiation is the path to a compromise. Neither approach necessarily results in the best match of skills to product. The daily rate is simply a cost for time. A budget is an invitation to limit scope.
Agile software development suggests a better way to charge. Development clients can be given a proposal – mapping features against planned sprints. Each sprint is effectively a delivery stage in a continuous integration. Software must work, test-driven development helps! Each sprint can result in an invoice and payment can signal acceptance.
Remote Development is proving less expensive than onsite contracting if you want a web software project (with Laravel/VueJS or Angular) follow the links in the article and send us your enquiry.
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Remote Development is professional contracting services delivered directly for clients more efficiently, for less expense. At this stage, we are looking for seed clients to grow the business, as we slowly add qualified developers who are able to prove themselves. Instead of funding a startup with huge upfront investment to build a huge company, I believe this can grow organically.
Instead of creating a software company that owns products, RemoteDevelopment.co.uk can schedule and implement CMS/E-commerce sites swiftly, using an Agile framework, to successfully deliver and host user-created content. Instead of funding a startup with huge upfront investment to build a huge company, I believe this can grow organically.
Instead of creating a software company that owns products, RemoteDevelopment.co.uk can schedule and implement CMS/E-commerce sites swiftly, using an Agile framework, to successfully deliver and host user-created content.
Clients who want to take things further with online applications, or corporate clients who normally hire experienced developers on contract can employ our skills. Onsite contracting is subject to IR35 scrutiny, and in fairness to employees who are committed to a company, there has to be a difference or separation. Contractors are independent entities who must be prepared to operate independently setup with their own equipment and resources. Remote Development is a natural fit for contractors.
How do we charge for services? Daily rates have to cover costs for on-site work. There is a natural conflict – clients want to know what a contractor will cost, a contractor asks what the budget is. Negotiation is the path to a compromise. Neither approach necessarily results in the best match of skills to product. The daily rate is simply a cost for time. A budget is an invitation to limit scope.
Agile software development suggests a better way to charge. Development clients can be given a proposal – mapping features against planned sprints. Each sprint is effectively a delivery stage in a continuous integration. Software must work, test-driven development certainly helps! Each sprint can result in an invoice. Customers expect delivery of integrated features rather than the time spent on the journey.
Remote Development is proving less expensive than onsite contracting. More can be achieved. It is progress.
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Remote Development is professional contracting services delivered directly for clients more efficiently, for less expense. At this stage, we are looking for seed clients to grow the business, as we slowly add qualified developers who are able to prove themselves. Instead of funding a startup with huge upfront investment to build a huge company, I believe this can grow organically.
Instead of creating a software company that owns products, we can schedule and implement CMS/E-commerce sites swiftly, using an Agile framework, to successfully deliver and host user-created content. Instead of funding a startup with huge upfront investment to build a huge company, I believe this can grow organically.
Instead of creating a software company that owns products, Remote Development can schedule and implement CMS/E-commerce sites swiftly, using an Agile framework, to successfully deliver and host user-created content.
Clients who want to take things further with online applications, or corporate clients who normally hire experienced developers on contract can employ the skills of seasoned contractors. Onsite contracting is subject to IR35 scrutiny, and in fairness to employees who are committed to a company, there has to be a difference or separation. Contractors are independent entities who must be prepared to operate independently setup with their own corporate entity, equipment, and resources. Remote Development is a natural fit for contractors.
How do we charge for services? Daily rates have to cover costs for on-site work. There is a natural conflict – clients want to know what a contractor will cost, a contractor asks what the budget is. Negotiation is the path to a compromise. Neither approach necessarily results in the best match of skills to product. The daily rate is simply a cost for time. A budget is an invitation to limit scope.
Agile software development suggests a better way to charge. Development clients can be given a proposal – mapping features against planned sprints. Each sprint is effectively a delivery stage in a continuous integration. Software must work, test-driven development certainly helps! Each sprint can result in an invoice. Customers expect delivery of integrated features rather than the time spent on the journey.
Remote Development is proving less expensive than onsite contracting. More can be achieved. It is progress.
For more information see www.RemoteDevelopment.co.uk
First clients
Remote Development has created new websites for two new clients. One of these is in collaboration with artist Fiona Scott-Wilson – and the website is an innovative idea. Art4Kids.gallery offers her cut-paper “paintings” as posters and prints designed with young children in mind.
Instead of plastic war toys or collecting baseball cards, why not introduce children, from an early age to images that help develop art appreciation as well as stimulating storytelling? I also see an extension of that logic: why not invest in collectible art when a child is young, so they can benefit from long-term appreciation?
The entire project took one Sprint to implement using our Remote Development’s Ecommerce package. This may be a good starting point for clients wanting a new website or to extend their sales online.
We also deliver online Full Stack Remote Development Projects. Inquire now to get your project requirement considered – first register at https://live.remotedevelopment.co.uk/register, introduce your business, then select CMS/Ecommerce or a Cloud hosted Development project with some basic details and we will respond with a proposal. It is quick and easy and no obligation to purchase.
Making Youtube video responsive
This solution was pioneered by Thierry Koblentz and presented on A List Apart in 2009: Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video. With this technique, you wrap the video in another element which has an intrinsic aspect ratio, then absolute position the video within that. That gives us fluid width with a reasonable height we can count on.
.videoWrapper {
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 56.25%; /* 16:9 */
padding-top: 25px;
height: 0;
}
.videoWrapper iframe {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
Event software
If you need to book an on-Slack support session - you can request a booking to be confirmed here. You must have a current Introductory plan or a Development project ongoing or live.
Appointment Calendar Powered By: AppointZilla
CMS Users
WordPress has a number of plugins for managing events, some of this are not the same as the others!
fooevents – extensive ticket printing and calendar based woo-commerce plugin
cost and budget for implementation £250 – £750
WordPress Event Booking Manager
Free, with Pro upgrade – for ticket selling to events
Appointment management
Testing a plugin – book a session