How is GenAI already changing the way agile teams work? AgilityFeat CEO Arin Sime will join Lithespeed CEO Sanjiv Augustine to explore this topic in a live LinkedIn event on December 10, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern. Viewers are encouraged...
Events
3 IoT Takeaways from SXSW for Entrepreneurs
Last week, thousands of techies descended on Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. As one might expect, the Internet of Things or IoT was a hotter topic than where to get the best barbeque (here's my recommendation by the way). The interest...
Announcing: Pi’s, Node, and Real-Time things
We are excited to announce that our resident node.JS guru, Allan Naranjo has been selected to speak at not one but two upcoming conferences in San Francisco. In October, Allan will...
Video: Mariana Lopez on Real-Time Interaction Design
Last week our UX lead Mariana Lopez presented at the ModevUX conference in Washington DC on how to do interaction design for Real-Time applications. Below is the video from her talk - check it out to learn some best practices for your...
MoDevUX Preview with Mariana Lopez
We're only a few short weeks away from MoDevUX and our UX Guru, Mariana Lopez sat down with the Jamie from MoDev to preview her session Design in the 4th Dimension: Interaction Design for Real Time Applications. This session is for...
On Team Building, The Commando Way
At AgilityFeat, we work in a distributed manner. Primarily due to the insight that interruptions kill productivity and partially due to the painful traffic situation that exists in San José Costa Rica (where most of our team lives), our...
Top Posts from 2013
2014 is only 9 days old and before we get too far into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our top posts from 2013. We covered a great deal of ground last year on our blog, including our experiences developing products via...
Real time app preview at MoDevEast
The future of web and mobile development is happening in real time. As real time data and communications become easier to integrate into applications, you will need to change the architecture and even business models of your applications...
AgilityFeat at Lean Startup Conference
We're excited to announce that our resident rockstar, Arin will be make a repeat appearance at the Lean Startup Conference. He's been asked to return to the conference, this time as mentor following his electrifying "Just Deploy It!"...
Agile Innovation: The Art of Ideas
Last night I had the pleasure of attending Boston's Lean Startup Circle, titled "Sprinting Towards Innovation". Lead by C. Todd Lombardo the Principal Innovation Catalyst at Constant Contact, the evening was a very hands-on event that...
5 reasons you’ll love to hate agile development
If agile development were easy, everyone would be doing it. Or at least doing it better. On October 18th AgilityFeat CEO/Founder Arin Sime (that's me) is presenting at InnovateVirginia on "5 reasons you'll love to hate agile development."...
AgilityFeat speaks on Real Time Messaging at Mo-Dev East
I'm excited to announce that AgilityFeat's own David Alfaro and Arin Sime will be speaking at MoDevEast in December in McLean, Virginia. MoDevEast is the premier East Coast mobile event spanning consumer and enterprise markets across all...
2 takeaways for Founders from @PaulSingh at @TechCocktail
There were some things that Paul Singh said last week that I can blog about. There were also a lot of jokes he made and insider advice that he gave which was quickly qualified with a "Don't tweet this please or I will kill you."...
Google Glass Hackathon at San José, Costa Rica
Last week Google Glass Mirror API was released causing huge waves of blog posts and opinions about the much anticipated Google Glass hardware. Google Glass has a huge potential. Nobody still knows if it would bring the revolution it...
Lean Sales and Marketing tips from 6 DC Lean Startups
My background is technical, not in sales. But as a lean entrepreneur, I have to wear my sales and marketing hat more than I wear my programmer hat these days. So I was excited when I could make it to this month’s DC Lean Startup Circle....
Things I learned in the morning at The Lean Startup Conference (part 1)
Yesterday, I went to The Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. It was a full day of incredible presentations, fireside chats (without the fires), sharing of lessons learned and of course networking. This was my first Lean Startup...
@PV webinar video on Customer Development
Yesterday the AgilityFeat team hosted a webinar with Patrick Vlaskovits, co-author of The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development and the upcoming "The Lean Entrepreneur". Patrick will be leading a workshop on customer development at...
DareToBeLean Webinar with Patrick Vlaskovits on Nov 15th!
Want to get a sneak peak at what to expect at the DareToBeLean conference? Well, here’s your chance! On November 15th at 12:30 EST, AgilityFeat will present a “fireside chat”, interwebs-style with Patrick Vlaskovits. You already know...
Registration for DareToBeLean is open!
January 9th - 11th, 2013 will be the dates that you learn how to make your startup dreams a reality. DareToBeLean is going to be a great 3 day workshop, on the beach in Tamarindo Costa Rica, that covers everything you need to know to...
AgilityFeat Presenting “Just Deploy It” at Ignite Lean Startup Conference
I'm very pleased to say that I will be presenting an Ignite talk at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December. I will talk about some anti-patterns that I see in software development for startups. In short, my advice is...
Patrick Vlaskovits, “The Lean Entrepreneur” to kick-off DareToBeLean
Patrick Vlaskovits to lead Customer Development workshop at D2BL2013 3-day workshop to be held on the beach in Costa Rica Software development firm AgilityFeat is pleased to announce that Patrick Vlaskovits will be leading a full day...
Resort survey for DareToBeLean
Help us choose the resort for DareToBeLean! I could use your help choosing the location for the Dare To Be Lean workshop this coming January 2013! In case you don’t already know what Dare To Be Lean is, here’s the quick rundown....
3 Lessons from #MoDevTablet
Does your startup have a mobile application component? You're certainly not alone, and that app should be more than just a mobile-aware website. That's one thing that I heard repeated at the #MoDevTablet conference last Friday just...
#LeanStartup Circle #Cville is off to a great start
There is clearly a lot of interest in lean startups in Charlottesville! Lean Startup Circle Charlottesville held our first meeting last night and it was a great success, with around 25 people attending. Our Meetup group is now up to 42+...
Check out the Sensei demo at #Agile2012
Today's your last day to see what the buzz is about Sensei and Agile Retrospectives at Agile 2012! Lithespeed has launched their Sensei product into beta, and we at AgilityFeat are particularly proud of it because our team of Costa Rican...