Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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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 -
Is Django the Right Fit for your Project?
An overview of whether a content management system or a custom-built Django website is better for your project. Read more
July 24, 2017 -
Upgrading from Wagtail 1.0 to Wagtail 1.11
Learn how Erin Mullaney upgraded from Wagtail 1.0 to Wagtail 1.11. A link to the GitHub code is included. Read more
July 19, 2017
