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DEVELOPMENT TOOLS 1 - VERSION CONTROL (Mercurial)
Version control has typically been called a “time machine” to look at your code. What that means is you can look at your code at any moment time as it has been developed...
CONTRACTING 2 - TOP 10 EASY SITE CREATOR TOOLS
If you’re not a coder, it’s imperative you’re able to build a professional site quickly for yourself, friends and associates. Here’s a list of my favorite site creator tools...
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PRODUCT SPECCING 1 - OVERVIEW OF HOW WE SPEC AT FACEYSPACEY
There are several schools of thought when it comes to how much you pre-plan your application and how much your developers develop it with agility, i.e. according to so-called “agile” practices. Our take is that “Agile” has been misinterpreted by many a failed startup as an excuse to operate without a proper plan...Read More
PRODUCT SPECCING 2 - SCOPE OPTIMIZATION
Typically at Faceyspacey we keep the scope of a brand new startup small, but quite a bit larger than what you’d get with one iteration. One typical iteration wouldn’t be what you feel is suitable to launch to the public. So we’d spec the startup down to what a multi-million dollar startup might accomplish in about 10 small iterations/sprints as they figure out their product...Read More
PRODUCT SPECCING 3 - INTRO TO BUILDING PAGE LAYOUTS
At FaceySpacey we produce layouts of every page of your application, and every state each page can be in. We do so in combination with a simultaneously running branding phase where each phase/aspect works off each other--we’ll talk about the importance of graphic design while speccing later...Read More
PRODUCT SPECCING 4 - FINDING INFLUENCES
Ok, so you get the idea that you have to get your layouts very precise and thorough. The next thing to know is that these layouts can’t be crappy “wireframes.” In this tutorial we'll cover where to draw your influences from...Read More
PRODUCT SPECCING 5 - ORGANIZED WRITTEN SPECS
Once you have the layouts, you need to write out descriptions for every interface element on each page. This is simple in itself once the layouts are produced. The harder part will be organizing the written specs in a concise non-repetitive format...Read More
PRODUCT SPECCING 6 - TASK ORGANIZATION & BUGTRACKING (Fogbugz)
In this tutorial you will learn the FaceySpacey process of organizing your tasks in spreadsheets and in Fogbugz...Read More
TECH SPECCING 1 - OVERVIEW
Just because we focus on a Top Down approach, where the specs and “product” lead the way, does not mean we also--simultaneously--take a Bottom Up approach. In this tutorial, you'll learn exactly how do it and get do it and take our product specs to the next deeper more technical level...Read More
TECH SPECCING 2 - DATABASE DESIGN
So what does the tech speccing itself look like more precisely? First it’s all about designing your database, which is what you'll learn in this tutorial...Read More
TECH SPECCING 3 - APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
The Yii Framework is based on this extremely popular design pattern, MVC. In this tutorial, we'll cover how to plan your Yii MVC application...Read More
TECH SPECCING 4 - SPRINT PLANNING (And More on Fogbugz)
A sprint is a set of tasks you plan to get done in a given period of time. This tutorial is all about planning & organizing what tasks go in those sprints.Read More
SMM 3 - FORMULA TO FIND INFLUENCERS