by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
This is the story of how we developed a product called Hashed. It was originally written and blogged about on Friday 15th November 2013. so here it is unedited… A few weeks ago the GGA team made the group decision to stop all client service work for one whole...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
If you work as part of a team, ask yourself how often you all get together to discuss what each of you are working on. Is it regularly? Sporadically? Never? If the answer is anything other than ‘regularly’ you are missing out on one of the most simple and effective...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
At the end of a busy, stressful work week we all need to decompress a little bit. For a lot of us that process starts with a trip to the pub for a few cheeky weekend tipples, and while we here at GGA happily subscribe to that too, we also have a pre-pub activity that...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
As I’m typing this, 2 of our development team are sitting around our TV listening to a 3rd dev hold court on ‘immutable architecture’ and the pros and cons of us migrating over to Chef and Puppet. Yeah I’m not too sure what that means either, but I do know that...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
It’s a pretty obvious statement that running a successful business is largely dependent on constantly winning new clients, projects and contracts. Keeping cash ringing through the register is what keeps a company moving forward and every sale can be classed as a...
by Paul Rhodes | May 12, 2014 | Uncategorised
In a previous blog we discussed the virtues of planning your company’s work day via a daily standup (read it here). While this is a great way of micromanaging (and I mean that in a good way), promoting team interaction and addressing issues, relying solely on daily...