Category Archives: best practices

Structuring HR Processes leveraging Microsoft Excel

At Software Associates we are running all the standard HR processes. However, we decided to bypass a centralised system for managing these processes and instead we tried out Microsoft Excel sheets to manage them. Fortunately this experiment has turned out … Continue reading

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Frugal engineering for Umbraco development

Frugal engineering – or reverse innovation – is about flipping the innovation process on its head. Our young innovators have been working overtime to build web development best practices which would enable “Good enough” offerings to customers across United Kingdom, … Continue reading

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Umbraco and microsites

Microsites are small websites developed to serve a specific purpose. They ought to serve a different audience or a subset of visitors of the parent site. Therefore, microsites stand apart from the parent site in layout and design. Whatever technology … Continue reading

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Umbraco development best practices

An age old concern – outsourcing has its own risks, though the return is quite big and luring. Some same goes for Umbraco development too. Over the years, a wide set of risk mitigation techniques have been evolved, using which … Continue reading

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Equate your Customer Acquisition Cost with Customer’s Lifetime Value

Even though the Internet provides a huge platform for the startup E businesses by leveling the playing fields and cutting down unnecessary intermediaries in the supply chain to bring the down the costs, yet, the failure rates among the startups … Continue reading

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Autobiography of a bug: Innovative Training Modules for Our Testing Team

“Autobiography of a bug” is an innovative video series which is being created by our testing team to sensitize our developers about best practices in testing. It is a video in the form of dialogues between a character called “The … Continue reading

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