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Adam Cogan General, Non-SSW projects, SSW Projects Project Management, Tech Debt, Technical Debt 0 Comments
In a perfect world, development projects would be: Deployed often Developed using Agile practices, for example following Scrum Using mainstream technologies and libraries Managed & developed using best practices – the reason I started rules.ssw.com.au Run at a sustainable cadence with a team of at l
Adam Cogan General, NDC Sydney, SSW Projects, SSW TV, Training 2020 in review, Embracing change, year in review 0 Comments
With so much of our time already dominated by Coronavirus, I didn’t want my 2020 year in review to be just about the changes it has wrought on the world. I know in Australia we have all experienced the upheaval at work, the pain of the severe lockdowns, social isolation, and more importantly, the fe
Adam Cogan Architecture, Non-SSW projects, SSW Projects Architecture Diagrams, Projects 5 Comments
A good architecture diagram (aka a cloud architecture diagram or system architecture diagram) gives a great overview of your project. It lets you see at a glance what the overall structure of the solution is. This is useful for gaining an understanding of how the system fits together, how it flows,
Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects github 1 Comment
About a year ago, during SSW’s annual retreat in Brisbane, we started to imagine what the world would look like if the SSW Rules site was easier to use. Therefore, we had to find an alternative to SharePoint’s content management features. The first tech we evaluated was an Angular application. Even
Adam Cogan SSW Projects 1 Comment
Cancer is very prevalent in my family. My mum has had breast cancer; she has 5 siblings – 4 out of the 5 got cancer too. It really runs down one side of my family. So, this topic is pretty important to me, especially having two beautiful girls myself. We do a lot of software projects at
Adam Cogan General, JavaScript Frameworks, SSW Projects 2018 in review, year in review 1 Comment
2018 was a whirlwind year and one that I’m very proud of. It’s fun to look back on and share with you all. This year SSW launched 2 new user groups, hit our highest utilisation rates for client bookings, and ran dozens of sold-out training courses around Australia. On a more personal level, I was lu
Adam Cogan Family, General, Power BI, renovation, SharePoint, SSW Projects review 0 Comments
I love these end of year review posts. When you’re in the thick of a project, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, but when you stop, reflect, and look back… it’s a beautiful landscape. That’s what this year has been like. Celebrity deaths, the US election, the SSW reno… phew.
Adam Cogan Angular, JavaScript Frameworks, SSW Projects 0 Comments
Google have made some great changes with the next version of Angular a.k.a. Angular 2.0. Here are the 6 things you should know about Angular 2.0.
Adam Cogan SSW Projects 0 Comments
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) has a great track record building solutions on the Microsoft stack and are in fact one of the largest users of SharePoint in the Southern Hemisphere. BCE engaged SSW to build a strategic planning tool that would be super powerful, flexible, and easy to use for all o
Adam Cogan SSW Data Onion, SSW Projects 0 Comments
At SSW we build software for a large range of clients, from start ups to massive enterprises and even our own internal projects. We care that the software we build is secure, maintainable and testable. Successful devs use great tools, great frameworks, and follow best practices. Choosing great tools