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Agility and the Annual Review

  • November 24, 2014
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Of course you’re great. Why do you need to have an annual review to tell your boss? Our Agile Architect talks about an agile approach to the employee review process.

Many companies have an annual employee review process that takes up a good portion of the holiday season. You may be experiencing this right now; I know that I am.

In most companies I’ve worked for, the annual review is tied to compensation and used to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of performance of individuals in the company. Depending on the size of your company, the people deciding on your performance (and therefore your raise) may not even know who you are. Because annual reviews are performed annually, we may only get one shot at making a good impression, despite all the hard work throughout the year.

Read the complete post at Application Development Trends Magazine

Standing guard: Asynchrony banking on mobile for growth

  • November 21, 2014
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Two years after launching a mobile division with $3 million in cash from its parent company, Schafer Corp., software developer Asynchrony is looking to spin out the unit as it attempts to commercialize the products it previously developed for clients.

Read the full story in the St. Louis Business Journal

Charlie Chapman Speaking at St. Louis Day of .NET.

  • November 12, 2014
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Asynchrony’s Charlie Chapman will be speaking this Saturday, November 15, at the St. Louis Day of .NET. His topic is “Cortana-integrated Voice Commands on Windows Phone 8.1.”

Charlie Chapman has worked in the Microsoft Stack his entire career. Starting in the healthcare industry, he wrote .NET solutions using ASP.NET and WCF services. In 2012 he moved on to writing mobile and touch applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8. Since then, over a dozen projects that Charlie has worked on are already available on the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store, and many more are to come.

St. Louis mobile developers talk industry trends you need to know

  • November 6, 2014
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Executives from Emerson, Panera, First Bank and Asynchrony participated in St. Louis’ first Mobile App Summit this morning, hosted by the Business Journal.

The panel, moderated by Asynchrony Director of Mobility Matt Sebek, discussed ways in which their companies stay on the cutting edge of innovation and what types of technology is being developed by their IT teams.

Read the full story in the St. Louis Business Journal.

Catalyzing Change with a Kanban Flow Manager

  • November 4, 2014
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At the Lean Kanban France conference, Asynchrony’s Director of Agile Coaching, Matthew Philip, will present his experiences from experimenting with the flow manager role to deepen the understanding and deployment of kanban. InfoQ interviewed Matthew about using kanban for visualization only and on implementing the role of flow manager to catalyze change in the organization.

Read the entire interview at InfoQ.

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