Planning on Rietta Cybersecurity

Herding Cats: The Todo List

Wed, 15 May 2019 10:45:00 -0400

Managing many Clients with several projects where multiple team members are working them, across an Agency that has a different product offerings can be a challenge. Finding tools and processes to sort it out and ensure everything gets done, is on time, and on budget can be really hard, especially for a small Agency whose trying to keep costs down. The productivity tool market is flooded with options, and finding a good one is tough - but when you do, you want to share. Here’s a quick story on what we’re currently trying to tame the todo list. I hope you find it useful!

Deep Work and Remote Work

Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:00:00 -0500

The ability to deeply concentrate and sink your teeth into a task is more valuable than ever, and yet, our attention has never been more scattered at work. Slack, email, and social media beg for our attention, and a lot of the time, it’s the path of least resistance to give in to the urge to check Reddit. There is a better way to work. The antidote to the scattering of our attention and lack of using our mind’s full potential is deep work.

3 Developer Onboarding Tips From My Recent Experiences

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:00:00 -0500

Starting out in a new job can bring about feelings of excitement and eagerness. Those emotions can also be accompanied with doubts about being useful, anxiety, and imposter-syndrome. Having experienced everything listed above, I’ve learned some strategies to help overcome the negatives and be proactive.

Working with the Rietta team has been an amazing experience with comradery and mentorship. This article briefly explores my experiences at Rietta to help equip new developers with a plan to synergize and grow with a new team.

How to use Story Points to Estimate a Web Application Minimum Viable Product

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:12:49 -0400

A user story is a concise written description that describes an item of functionality that is valuable to a user or a purchaser of a web application, preferably from the point of view of that person’s individual desires. They typically consist of three components: a written description of the story used for planning conversations about the story that serve to flesh out the details of the story tests that convey and document the desired outcome and can be used to determine when a story is complete The best user stories are sufficiently small to be accurately estimable by developers and arranged in a prioritized list where a member of the development team can always confidently pick the next most important task to work on at all times during his or her work week.

Project Roadmaps can Manage Uncertainty in Startups' Web Applications

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:00:00 -0400

Project communication breaks down quickly due to miscommunication about

Estimates
Targets
Commitments

These concepts are not clearly understood by everyone involved in a typical project.