Don’t Forget These Quality Assurance Soft Skills

Don’t Forget These Quality Assurance Soft Skills

Improving your “soft skills” will support a development team in effectively meeting project goals. When it comes to QA, these are some some of the more contemporary communication skills that have served to be effective in communicating with our Agile teams at Unosquare. 1. BE TACTFUL

Examples of Bad Leadership You Can Learn From

Examples of Bad Leadership You Can Learn From

At some point during your professional life, you’ll probably encounter an exceptionally poor leader, boss or manager – someone you’ve worked for, or you’ve seen in a close team. I have, and it’s stressful and exhausting. I’ve seen some toxic leaders in other teams and watched that team reach a crisis point sooner or later. […]

A Guide Towards Right Sourcing: Software Development Outsourcing

A Guide Towards Right Sourcing: Software Development Outsourcing

This post is the first in a series intended to provide my guide to “Right-Sourcing.” This term is what I use to describe finding the best fit for distributed agile augmentation of your software development team. Over a series of posts, we will discuss how aligning your software staffing needs with available options – whether […]

Assuming Leadership and Managing Distributed Teams

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Being promoted from within to assume a leadership role on a team where you were once a member has a set of inherent challenges — many of the issues that you would encounter come from assumptions and not taking the opportunity to set expectations. If it is an outside hire, they will likely be more […]