Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Using Priority in Scrum to address team anxiety
In Scrum, the backlog of tasks is ordered by the Product Owner from highest to lowest business value - not merely prioritized - so that the team knows what the most valuable ite... Read more
December 21, 2016 -
Django is Boring, or Why Tech Startups (Should) Use Django
I recently attended Django Under The Hood in Amsterdam, an annual gathering of Django core team members and developers from around the world. A common theme discussed at the con... Read more
December 14, 2016 -
CSS Grid, not Frameworks, are the Future
At the 2016 An Event Apart Conference in San Francisco, I peeked under the hood of a new technology that would finally address all the layout woes that we as designers and devel... Read more
December 7, 2016 -
Django Under the Hood 2016 Recap
Caktus was a proud sponsor of Django Under the Hood (DUTH) 2016 in Amsterdam this year. Organized by Django core developers and community members, DUTH is a highly technical con... Read more
November 29, 2016 -
On building relationships - Digital Project Management Summit Recap
When I first became a digital project manager, I struggled to find professional resources. There was a plethora of information available for traditional project management, but ... Read more
November 18, 2016 -
RapidCon 2016: RapidPro Developer's Recap
Developer Erin Mullaney was just in Amsterdam for RapidCon, a UNICEF-hosted event for developers using RapidPro, an SMS tool built on Django. The teams that have worked on Rapid... Read more
November 16, 2016
