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Agile for wellbeing and high morale.

With Agile, there is a chance to create short term goals that can be crossed of the proverbial list over relatively short time spans. Mini "project ends" that can activate the reward centres in our brains. Sprint ends, therefore, should be created with this in mind

What we offer as a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

After becoming a Microsoft Partner, we have been exploring how this new relationship can deliver more value to our customers. For our software development customers, this is easy. We can

opinion

Is an apprentice right for you?

As an ex-teacher, the apprenticeship program is something that I have a lot of thoughts an opinions on. Here at STaC Solutions we're six months in to working

Azure

Entity Framework Performance Issues - The Supermarket analogy.

What is entity framework? Entity Framework is an ORM (Object Relationship Mapping) tool. While this doesn't mean a lot, what is more important is what it does. Entity

Cloud

We're now officially a Silver Microsoft Partner!

We have improved our partnership with Microsoft to become a Silver partner. This means we have been recognised by Microsoft as being able to deliver quality services and puts us

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAC SOLUTIONS!

It's our third birthday! We celebrated by asking everyone who wanted to, to create a piece of artwork for the occasion. One of our managers is king of

remoteworking

Remote Working: the future for Software Development and the Tech industry?

Remote working and the new normal. An opinion piece on some of the positives and potential downfalls or remote working.

Where to begin?

Our blog post today is guest written by our apprentice Pip White. Who shares her thoughts on the best coding languages for beginners. Here at STaC Solutions, we offer a

Teams & Processes

Creating the "Best" Software Solutions.

Best is subjective, how do we ensure our work is the best that it can be?

It’s Official: We’re Now a Microsoft Partner!

Exciting news - we're now an official Microsoft Partner! What Does This Mean? As an official Microsoft Partner, we now work more closely with Microsoft. This means being

Teams & Processes

Tech Tools: How To Choose The Right Ones For You

How do you choose the right tech tools for your business? Choosing the right software tools for your business can take time. Anticipating what actions and challenges are up ahead,

Education

Teaching Algorithms at Home - Jam Sandwich Robot (Presentation)

As part of our series on teaching code at home, we ran a presentation at the May LeicesterJS webinar. We spoke through the learning journey that children could take to

Cloud

Cloud Services For Business: Are You Paying Too Much?

In times like these, assessing and managing spend of every part of your business is pretty important. It can be easy to overlook some areas, especially if they're

Software

5 Steps To Take When Troubleshooting Software

Diagnosis: Software Murder As we've dicussed before, software roles [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/software-jobs-the-hardest-hat/] can be pretty tricky, and to get everything balanced is no mean feat. However,

Education

Using Technology as an Education tool - Recall for Further Exploration

In our last post [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/using-technology-as-an-education-tool-creating-purpose/] we spoke about using technology to further children's learning through sharing. In this blog post we will talk more

Education

Using Technology as an Education Tool - Creating Purpose

In our previous blog post [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/technology-as-an-education-tool/] we talked about how gamification does not accurately mimic children's play in a developmentally useful way. Now we&

Education

Technology in Early Years Education - A Tool for Learning.

In a not-to-distant past life, I worked as an Early Years teacher. For six years I taught children from ages 3-7 and completed a masters in Learning, Education and Technology

Teams & Processes

Software Jobs: Who Wears The Hardest Hat?

We've recently talked about different jobs within software teams. Business analysts [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/importance-of-business-analysts/], quality teams [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/bomb-squad-quality-assurance-in-software/] and software developers [https://stacsolutions.

Teams & Processes

Digital Astronauts: The Role of Software Developers

If software is the spaceship used to navigate the tech universe, then developers are the astronauts that keep the spaceship flying. From the initial build to keeping up the repairs,

Cost-reduction

Cutting Kubernetes Costs (Azure AKS)

This is a case study based on a piece of work we completed, but we have changed some of the details to keep our client's confidentiality. The piece

Teams & Processes

Call In The Bomb Squad: Quality Teams in Software Projects

KABOOM! Ahh, the sound of a software project exploding. What happened? A quality team wasn't involved. Okay, it may not have literally blown up (we hope), but without

Teams & Processes

Bomb Squads: Keeping Software Safe (Presentation)

The scenario: We have reports of several suspicious packages around the city. We're the bomb squad. We need to solve a problem before any damage can be done.

Teams & Processes

The (Hostage) Negotiator: What Can We Learn From Software Business Analysts?

Business Analysts have a delicate act to balance when it comes to refining existing processes. With a whole bunch of variables, stakeholders and requirements, it's a sensitive field

Teams & Processes

Plumbers & Their Pipes: Understanding Business Processes

You don't automatically associate the inner workings of pipes with business processes. But it's something we've been thinking about recently. The complex layout of

Cloud

Costing Up The Cloud: Tailoring Cloud Service Spend In Today's Climate

We've chatted about cloud spend [https://stacsolutions.io/blog/optimising-cloud-spend-in-azure/] before. In fact, it's an area we specialise in [https://stacsolutions.io/services/]. Before we start,