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Over the past two years Jama Software has taken steps to make pair-programming a greater part of our engineering culture. Our product-development organization produces software according to the Agile Software Development framework of Scrum, with regular iterations, and self-organizing teams. Within the agile principle of incremental refinement, we have continued to adopt practices that help us produce quality […]
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk…In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg, CEO & Founder of Facebook Although this is true of many of today’s greatest product innovations and the people behind them, when it comes to […]
While there is plenty of excellent material out there about Docker, the bi-weekly lightning talks that we do in Engineering are a good opportunity to bring some basic information about this awesome technology in front of engineers in our team that would otherwise not easily be exposed to it (for instance because they mostly work […]
On Nov. 5th a few of us from Jama gathered together at Jama HQ to host a 24-hour gaming stream and LAN party in support of Extra Life. It was a fun, and at times grueling, marathon of playing video games and board games to help a great cause. We had a lot of hiccups […]
Last week was a stressful one for many of us, and definitely for myself. Over the weekend while I was visiting LA for my friend’s wedding, my grandmother passed away due to complications from Alzheimer’s and untreated breast cancer. In order to be a pallbearer at the funeral, I ended up extending my stay for […]
A couple of weeks ago, a group of us took a trip to Northeast Portland to volunteer for the Oregon Humane Society. Upon arrival, they gave us a quick orientation and went over some safety protocols, but also gave us a great history of the humane society. In case you’re a numbers/facts person, here is […]
We recently hosted a series of Code School sessions within Jama aimed at teaching non-engineers how to program. I worked on two 90-minute classes that taught some of our Sales and Customer Service reps how to interact with the Jama API using Python. By the end of it, they had the skills to automate some […]
I’m excited about this new library I ran into and I would like to share the excitement. It’s called Restito, it’s on GitHub, and I actually found it on a blog from 2012, so… where were you all this time? Restito is a Java library to mock out REST APIs. It’s self-described as the complement […]
Jama rolled out our REST API earlier this year, and we couldn’t wait to see what our customers would do with it. We’ve also had opportunities to work with organizations on good ways to leverage the API, including an exciting and unique engagement with Portland State University (PSU) computer science students in their Capstone Program. We’ve had […]
It’s easy to get lost in work. We end up spending so much of our time on our work, in the building, and with our co-workers, that it really begins to become a part of our actual life. This is why it is so important to also highlight the activities that people do outside of […]