DevFacto

08/23/2022

Taylor talks about how innovation has shifted from an ultra-secret thing most of us hear about years later, to something we can hold in our hands and work with every day. More than that, he suggests using innovation as a way to plan an exceptional future.

Read Taylor’s post on our blog!
https://devfac.to/3R3aVH0

At DevFacto, we look for opportunities to innovate every day. The variety of work and the potential impact of crafting a better future is what drives us.

Art by Jesse Naguib
https://devfac.to/3PJktWy

Innovation brings change and difficulty. Accepting this is inevitable, innovation can be very effective in empowering your team and steering the future.

07/19/2022

This week on the DevFacto blog, Vasco Pedro breaks down DevFacto's multi-step approach to SharePoint migration in the first instalment of a two-part post.

Check it out and keep your eyes out for part 2!

Our scalable approach to migration consistts of four phases to reduce risk and ensure success: Pre-assessment, Discovery, Migration, and Support.

06/23/2022

David takes stock of what the pandemic has done to our working lives. Read David’s post on our blog! https://devfac.to/3naprzS

The struggles, the pivots, the new technology, and increased awareness of mental health. What are the big things we should be considering? What are the small things we can try each day to deal with anxiety and burnout?

At DevFacto, we're committed to reviewing the ways in which we work and communicate and exploring how others have found success as well. Making these improvements is one of the ways we deliver better work for our clients, but it's also an important piece behind how we improve the lives of our employees.

If you'd like to come work with a group of people that care to improve how their work gets done, check out our current listings and apply–https://devfac.to/3xTap6O

Art by Elijah Cardinal-Whitford
https://devfac.to/3N9h3uZ

Zoom fatigue, increased stress, poor communication, and collective mental health concerns are all real. But they don’t need to guide the way work is done.

06/02/2022

Today is the day! Last chance to sign up and attend (or get access to the resources from the webinar afterwards). We'll be connecting at 11am MST today as Jason digs in to a powerful new approach to data management.

https://devfac.to/393MjxF

05/25/2022

Following his Practical Innovation webinar, Taylor will expand on innovation in a series of articles. The first, 'What Is Innovation', works to dispel myths like “it’s only innovation if it’s a massive, world-changing thing” and boils core innovation down to process, assessment, and outcome.

At DevFacto, we crave partnerships that focus on what comes next. We get excited about the opportunities we find while working with our customers, especially when they share our drive to deliver a future that’s better for everyone.

Read the first post in our latest series, What Is Innovation!
https://devfac.to/3sWmSEX

Art by Jesse Naguib
https://devfac.to/3sWmTbZ

05/18/2022

DevFacto Webinar Announcement - 11am MST on June 2, 2022
Data management has changed! Traditional approaches depend on centralization, but with Data Virtualization powered by Denodo we can speed up and scale like never before. Find out how to unlock the value of your organization’s data through a modern approach to data management.

Register now–https://devfac.to/3wCpFUF

What you'll learn in this webinar
• The reason prior approaches to data management don’t (can’t!) work
• How a new approach can improve your velocity, increase quality and decrease risk of your data provisioning efforts
• How to implement modern data management without disrupting your business

If you can't make the session, sign up to get access to the material afterwards.

Register now–https://devfac.to/3wCpFUF

04/25/2022

Ryley walks us through a simple way to copy a sharepoint modern page using Power Automate in four easy steps. No need to mess with PowerShell!

Grab the step by step walkthrough on our blog.
https://devfac.to/3kbOaSR

At DevFacto, we work to put you in a postition of power. Whether that’s taking on the work you can’t or don’t want to do yourself or empowering you to handle the work nicely in house, we want to see you succeed.

Art by Nikki
https://devfac.to/3EI9BVj

04/12/2022

Nolan Smits shares his experience and insight, having worked on projects run with a wide range of methodologies. Untangling the differences between Waterfall and Agile can be tricky and every team seems to run projects slightly differently.

As consultants at DevFacto, we gain a lot of insight working through whatever methodology our customer is running. We’ll always try and optimize the process if we see any ways to improve, but some groups are more flexible than others. One of our favorite outcomes is leaving a team running more efficiently than when we joined it.

Continue the journey on our blog
https://devfac.to/3jBZ4AY

Art by Gwen Tsui
https://devfac.to/3jxmszH

Since there are strengths and weaknesses to both Waterfall and Agile development, why not combine them to make use of their strengths?

03/29/2022

Chad Ross shares his thoughts on IT budgeting, and how the investment in technology impacts your business. What to spend on and how often are critical questions, but they aren’t the only questions to ask. Technology should improve your business in a variety of ways internally and externally.

At DevFacto, we work with you to make you maximize the value of your spend and build in the right direction. Making the right move at the right time requires strategic thinking just as much as planning, and yes, an appropriate budget.

Dig deeper on our blog.
https://devfac.to/36K1vOM

Art by Jessa Naguib
https://devfac.to/3ICA2fe

03/22/2022

Sara Richards is back with another installment in her Innovative History series. This time she’s talking about the printing press and the impact it’s had on our world. Making knowledge accessible and available is often a theme when it comes to innovation, as it consistently leads to increasing the potential of a single human.

As consultants at DevFacto, we do our best work when we understand the needs of individual users of the systems we build. Success scales, especially when it is replicatable and repeatable. Language leads to shared understanding. The printing press set up a one to many knowledge explosion. Just imagine what might come next!

Continue the journey on our blog.
https://devfac.to/3uei8ua

Art by Tayson Martindale
https://devfac.to/3wuJYVM

Gutenberg’s press afforded the democratization and dissemination of information, empowering people to think critically, and dream of a better life.

03/15/2022

Chad Ross discusses the reasons you should assess your business process or the software you have in place to support those processes. It’s not always easy to know where to focus your efforts, and where your attention should be when you do. Businesses need a competitive advantage, which suggests unique process and tools. Custom software can support any process we can imagine, but that doesn’t come without risk.

At DevFacto, we’ve seen many approaches to this problem over the years. The truth we can share that knowledge is power definitely applies, and what works for the company across the street won’t necessarily bring the same result in your company. We’re always happy to dig into the details with you and decide on a path that plays to your strengths and current assets.

Continue the journey on our blog.
https://devfac.to/3KLYblg

Art by Taylor Reese
https://devfac.to/3tVwSOy

01/19/2022

Sara Richards is back with another installment in her Innovative History series. This time she’s talking about the division of labour, and how it has shaped our societies and fueled our development. The shift from everyone being a generalist to having experts, and then groups of experts that share knowledge and push our understanding of the world around us.

As consultants at DevFacto, we often need to be technology or business generalists with deep expertise in certain areas like data science or experience design. As technology evolves, we’re constantly growing our understanding in key areas, and bringing the benefit of our expertise to bear for our customers.

Continue the journey on our blog.
https://devfac.to/3GMFa08

Art by Tayson Martindale
https://devfac.to/3fBBcvu