Scio Blog
Insights for CTOs and engineering leaders managing software teams, AI adoption, and modernization decisions. Practical thinking on nearshore development, technical debt, and scaling engineering organizations, from a team that has been building and integrating software for U.S. companies for over 20 years.
Best Practices for Distributed Agile – Part 1 of 5
Practices required for distributed teams: Basically Agile (and Scrum!) The use of the agile methodology in combination with the Scrum...
10 Critical Offshore Outsourcing Risks US Tech Teams Miss
Offshore outsourcing risks include IP exposure, hidden costs, and quality gaps. See the 10 most critical ones and how nearshore development helps avoid them.
Soft Skills for Software Development Teams
Background Before we discuss this subject - let’s reach a common understanding of what we mean by Soft Skills for Software Development Teams....
Recognizing Cultural Differences in Outsourcing
First, let me say this is not an article for budding sociologists or business leaders who think that the last 20 years of increased person-to-person...
Top 10 Project Management Tools to Run Outsourced Software Projects
In recent years, the Agile project approach has been the choice of many for their software project management needs. It uses sprints, which in turn...
4 Characteristics of Great Agile Software Development Teams
It has always been said that the kind of members you take in your team determines the success rate of a project. This is true for software...
5 Tips to Integrate External Software Developers into Your Team
Today, more and more IT companies, especially on agile software, have been hiring external software developers to work on a certain project or...
UX Design for Software: 5 Key Considerations to Build Better Applications
In this modern age of technology mostly dominated by applications, one of software developers’ major considerations is how the overall product or...
Startup Team Responsibilities: How to Divide Roles Well
Startup team responsibilities left to intuition create conflict and slow growth. See how to divide roles clearly, and evolve your structure as you scale.