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CRi Solutions Team Holds 24-hour Gaming Marathon to Raise Money for Extra Life.
Saturday November 3 2018, the CRi Solutions team geared up for a 24-hour gaming marathon raising $7,407. The organization, Extra Life, unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Donations...
Product Owners: How Deep in Debt Are You?
Technical debt like money debt can insidiously accumulate. For many Product Owners, technical debt is tasteless, odorless, and colorless. Yet, if allowed to grow unchecked, it will gradually eat away at quality, maintainability, and future product scalability....
Here’s Your Agile Training, Now Go be Agile
Many companies approach Agile training like they approach any other kind of organizational enrichment, attend a class, workshop, webinar, etc. This is an effective first step to introduce Agile concepts. It lays the theoretical groundwork for teams to learn what...
ARKit Conway’s Game of Life as a Cube
Conway's Game of Life The Game of Life is a zero player game which was originaly intended for two-dimensional. In the Game of Life, there is a grid that contains many cells which are either alive or dead. The game is played by itself and follows four important rules....
CRi Solutions Podcast: Agile SAFe
CRi Solutions Episode 4. In this episode we discuss the Agile SAFe Framework for those that wish to continue scaling Agile within their organization. We have with us today, Tom Schaeffer, CRi's Agile Practice Director. In this podcast we discuss: What is SAFe SAFe's...
Outsourcing Software: Scaling Bank Services Case Study
Client The Client is a banking institution that currently provides a collection of banking functionality servicing a specific market segment and related industries such as lenders, title companies, and real estate agents. They provide tools to manage the monies of...
What is a Kanban Agile Strategy?
What is a Kanban Agile Strategy? Kanban is a popular framework used to implement agile software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work. Kanban is Japanese for “visual signal” or “card.” Toyota line-workers used a...
Case Study: Outsourcing Your Challenges
Client The Client is a professional services organization serving a multi-state business in the Midwest since 2009. The Client was formed as a separate business organization from its parent company by merging the IT services departments of multiple office locations....
Design Sprints: Building and Testing Prototypes in 5 Days
What are Design Sprints? Design sprints were born out of Google Ventures about 5 years ago, and the developers of the process considered the build and measure component of design the foundation for creating successful products. By building on the familiar principles...
CRi Solutions Podcast: Insourcing vs Outsourcing
CRi Solutions Episode 2. In this episode we discuss outsourcing to help solve your technology challenges. We have with us today, Jackie Austin, Senior Vice President of the CRi solutions team. If you would like to discuss your outsourcing needs with Jackie email us at...
An Introduction to Developing Actions for the Google Assistant
Actions on Google is the developer platform for creating conversational apps for the Google Assistant and publishing them to Google Home, Android, the Google Assistant app on iPhone, and beyond. The Google Assistant is Google’s vision for how computers can help people...
Why Good UX is Good for Business
Every day we conduct more of our day to day business interactions in a digital environment, it's never been more critical to offer our users a seamless digital experience that aligns with how they prefer to conduct their business and live their lives. It has become an...