1 June 2018 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
By: Jonathan Donkin This is the 2nd part of a 7-part series. The first part can be found here https://stgconsulting.com/habits-of-highly-effective-software-developers/. As always, I look forward to your thoughts. Begin with the End in Mind In the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey makes the point that this habit is about leadership and your circle of influence. […]
29 May 2018 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
By: Jonathan Donkin Recently as I was reading Seven Habits for Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, it dawned on me that those same habits that Covey says he put together into Seven Habits actually applies to Software Development as well. So as an attempt to gather together my thoughts both from my own experience […]
15 February 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Matt Chiang Learning never exhausts the mind. –Leonardo da Vinci @STG this year, we stayed engaged in learning during the summer by doing a series of automation code challenges. The code challenges were simple at first and gets more difficult. Some concepts were easy to grasp. Others were more difficult. However, in […]
9 February 2017 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
You may have heard the phrase “Data is the new oil” but like oil, data must be refined before it can really be useful. Numeric data is easy to refine – you can add it, sort it, average it, and look for trends. But what about text? How do you add words? This […]
29 November 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
by Matt Chiang “Learning never exhausts the mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci @STG this year, we stayed engaged in learning during the summer by doing a series of automation code challenges. The code challenges were simple at first and then get more difficult. Some concepts were easy to grasp. Others were more difficult. However, in […]
1 August 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Dan Woodruff Ever had a developer join a team, suggest a radical solution and be shut down? Or have them suddenly be allowed to develop their ideas? I find it fascinating as to how this happens and may have some insight. Each company’s culture, whether they know it or not, has inherent values. For example, […]
14 June 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Who are we? Software Technology Group (STG) is a software-consulting firm located in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. STG is a privately owned and operated company, which enables us to make decisions based on the needs of our employees and our clients, not those of shareholders. Founded 20 years ago, STG has maintained the goal […]
28 March 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Chris Lake One of the ways that STG likes to partner with its clients is to sit in as an observer when we have a candidate interview. We don’t interfere with anything said, but being in the room helps us observe and see both how the candidate does and what needs our client has […]
14 March 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Geoffrey Sagers I recently had the opportunity to attend the RootsTech Genealogy conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the sessions I attended was the Innovator Showdown. It was the final six of numerous of entries to “show off” how technology can improve family history — the world’s largest org chart. Most people […]
8 February 2016 alan.monson@stgconsulting.com General Software Development
Author: Patricia Johnson Part 1: The Code That Time Forgot Like me, you probably expect that html code is going to display virtually the same in every browser, with a few known exceptions. There are small foibles in rendering between the assorted web browsers, but with every update, those differences become fewer and fewer, and […]
