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Choosing the Right Hackathon Platform for Your Business

Qmarkets

At its core, a hackathon is a time-bound event where participants collaborate intensively to tackle challenges, brainstorm innovative solutions, or build functional prototypes. Features like instant messaging, video conferencing, and shared workspaces allow participants to brainstorm and collaborate seamlessly, regardless of location.

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What is a Hackathon: A Beginner’s Guide to Planning and Running Innovation Events 

Qmarkets

Originally rooted in software development, hackathons have evolved into a strategic tool across industries, fostering creativity, team collaboration, and idea generation under tight timeframes. Participants form teams, brainstorm, and develop solutions like prototypes , software, or process improvements under a set theme.

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Software that Writes Itself? Low Code / No Code Applications have Arrived

Daniel Burrus

As time moved on, another option surfaced with regard to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in that those in need of an application could purchase it or pay a subscription to essentially lease it as an already fully developed software. There are two downsides to both of these options. Essentially, it is next to impossible.

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Are We Taking the “U” Out of UX?

Boxes and Arrows

Some excerpts: Work with the development team to follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems. The split of the design teams into researchers and designers might be hampering effective software development. And who does research?

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Persona Grata

Boxes and Arrows

Alan Cooper interviewed several people who were in the intended audience of a project he was working on and got to know them so well that he pretended to be them as a way of brainstorming and evaluating ideas from their perspective (Cooper, “ The Origin of Personas “). What are personas used for? Build empathy.

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Agile tools for remote teams

mjvinnovation

The Agile approach, born among software developers and increasingly incorporated into projects and teams from different areas, offers the ability to implement a clear structure that promotes iterative development, collaboration, and a focus on quality and efficiency. ? To foster collaboration: Miro. Ideabordz.

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How to accelerate digital transformation with nearshore and offshore

mjvinnovation

Considering the scarcity of talent in technology, outsourcing is becoming even more desirable, as it solves a number of problems – from the acceleration of digital transformation in companies that were not yet fully aligned to the reduction of software development costs. How about we sit down to discuss your company’s challenges?

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