The Digital Frontlines Blog
The Hardest Part of a Software Development Project
How to Build Consensus on Software Requirements Three colleagues walk into a bar. Sam from sales, Megan from customer service, and Nick, senior software developer. The conversation goes like this: “What do you think of this project to consolidate sales, customer, and...
Lessons Learned: Keep Multiple Software Teams in Sync
Every digital business lead I know is stretched too thin, which is not to say they’ve cornered the market on being overextended. But the relentless pursuit of digitization to make business more efficient, productive, and competitive has put digital teams in the hot...
Skyward App Company Develops Mobile App to Detect New PA Aquatic Invasive Species
App to help PA Sea Grant protect and promote coastal and watershed resources Pennsylvania Sea Grant and Skyward App Company have released an Android app to detect aquatic invasive species (AIS) in real time. The “PA AIS Field Guide” app joins an earlier version that...
From Space to Field: the Emerging Power of Satellite Imagery
Help from on high A technology that has been around for decades is emerging as a powerful “new” tool in solving agriculture’s most urgent problems. The difference between then and now is in the clarity and frequency of satellite imagery, and agriculture’s vastly...
Agriculture turns to technology as the labor pool shrinks
Farm workers are the single largest expense on many farms, costing from 25% to 75% of a crop’s value. And that assumes you can find them. The farm labor shortage is so severe that even smaller producers are investing in technology, an expense that was off the table...
Don’t Roll the Dice with Software Product Development
After 20 years developing digital solutions, I have concluded that companies are ill-served following the conventional software product development process. Bringing in a development team at the point of implementation is rolling the dice. Inevitably something is...