Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Advanced Django File Handling
Advanced Django File Handling Modern Django's file handling capabilities go well beyond what's covered in the tutorial. By customizing the handlers that Django uses, you can d... Read more
August 28, 2017 -
DjangoCon 2017 Recap
Mid-August brought travel to Spokane for several Caktus staff members attending DjangoCon 2017. As a Django shop, we were proud to sponsor and attend the event for the eighth ye... Read more
August 23, 2017 -
Letting Go of JIRA: One Team's Experiment With a Physical Sprint Board
At Caktus, each team works on multiple client-service projects at once, and it’s sometimes challenging to adapt different clients’ various tools and workflows into a single Scr... Read more
August 21, 2017 -
ShipIt Day Recap Q3 2017
Caktus recently held the Q3 2017 ShipIt Day. Each quarter, employees take a step back from business as usual and take advantage of time to work on personal projects or otherwise... Read more
August 14, 2017 -
Transitioning to Scrum: Mapping Job Titles to Scrum Roles
Early in your transition to Scrum, you will be faced with a hard truth: your team or organization has job titles and Scrum has roles, and there is probably little to no overlap ... Read more
August 7, 2017 -
From User Story Mapping to High-Level Release Plan
At Caktus, we begin many projects with a discovery workshop. A discovery workshop is an opportunity for our product team to get together with client stakeholders in order to ans... Read more
July 31, 2017