By Paul Grizzaffi, Principal Automation Architect, Cognizant Softvision In high school and college, I had to work hard at math in order to do well… like, really hard. The reasons for that are myriad, but there was an exception: geometry. I was a whiz at geometry. …

By Stefan Bala, Project Manager, Cognizant Softvision How many times have you heard or read articles like, “10 ‘Dumb’ Ideas That Were Actually Brilliant” or “30 Products So Dumb They Might Be Brilliant”? So it seems, at times, that for brilliance to surface you need to tap into the denser…

By Soofia Inayat, Senior Mobile Product Manager, Cognizant Softvision Including Continuous Discovery in development sprints can make a huge difference in your existing products. If your initial Product Discovery process answered the question, “what are we building?”, then Continuous Discovery should allow you to evolve your answer. It’s refinement based…

By Agustina Miguez, Senior UX Designer, Cognizant Softvision As a UX designer, friends and family often ask me, “What exactly do you do?” Since the user experience discipline is fairly new, I find that many are unfamiliar with the profession. …

By Dylan Flowers, Senior Product Designer, Devbridge Back in 1990 when computers were still getting used to graphical user interfaces and the ‘world wide web’ was considered a cool but passing fad, one of the godfathers of UX design, Jacob Neilson, published an article called “Improving Human computer dialogue.” …

A tutorial on the world’s leading tool for BDD By Dragos Trif, Perl Programmer, Cognizant Softvision Behavior-Driven Development is an agile software development process that encourages teams to use conversation and concrete examples to formalize a shared understanding of how the application should behave. Cucumber Open is the world’s leading…

By Marina Ciocoiu, Business Analyst As a Product Owner, your primary focus is ensuring quality in the product you are managing. That being said, technical debt is an important issue that has a direct impact on delivering a successful outcome. But what exactly is technical debt? According to ProductPlan, technical…

A Story About Falling Forward By Sergiu Tarnovan, Project Manager, Cognizant Softvision “Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.” — Denzel Washington 2020, the year that changed the world. …

By Mircea Ranca, Product Owner, Cognizant Softvision What is a Team Retrospective meeting and why do we use them? Teams who use the Agile software development methodology use retrospective sessions, which are meetings typically held at the end of each sprint or, in some cases, at the end of the…