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Yellow Pencil Inc.

Yellow Pencil Inc.

Customizing Websites With Bookmarklets: How We Improved Our Kanban Board

About two years ago, we implemented Kanban into our daily processes at Yellow Pencil with great results. Kanban, a Japanese word for…

Feb 8, 2017

Customizing Websites With Bookmarklets: How We Improved Our Kanban Board

Feb 8, 2017

Yellow Pencil Inc.

Your best deployment done better

Your best deployment done better

Dec 7, 2016

Your best deployment done better

Dec 7, 2016

Yellow Pencil Inc.

Project estimation: Getting on the same page

From a developer’s point of view, the project manager is often the person in the back seat of the car asking, “are we there yet?” Only…

Apr 7, 2016

Project estimation: Getting on the same page

Apr 7, 2016

Yellow Pencil Inc.

User story pitfalls

We like to write user stories to specify project requirements. Unfortunately, from time to time we fall victim to a few pitfalls that make…

Mar 9, 2016

User story pitfalls

Mar 9, 2016

Yellow Pencil Inc.

Five guidelines for a digital public service

“There is no reason that government can’t have good online services.” - Cyd Harrell, Product Director, Code for America.

Dec 7, 2015

Five guidelines for a digital public service

Dec 7, 2015

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How to avoid a collision course when managing technology and creative projects

If you’re managing large creative and technology projects, it can be tough to balance the two competing approaches. In the creative corner…

Jun 19, 2015

How to avoid a collision course when managing technology and creative projects

Jun 19, 2015

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Sizing up your competition with a competitive audit

Anyone who follows sports knows that teams are constantly sizing up their competition. They’ll study the stats, consider who’s injured, and…

May 21, 2015

Sizing up your competition with a competitive audit

May 21, 2015

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User testing before you user test

In order for James Dyson to perfect his bagless vacuum cleaner he had to create 5,127 prototypes. That was in 1978, before it was free to…

May 7, 2015

User testing before you user test

May 7, 2015

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5 things I learned about web accessibility by testing a screen reader

Thirty-nine million. Most people would agree that’s a significant number. And according to recent statistics from the World Health…

Apr 30, 2015

5 things I learned about web accessibility by testing a screen reader

Apr 30, 2015

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Creating a responsive table solution for complex schedule data

You know the scenario: You need to get downtown in a hurry and you have no idea when the next bus is leaving … You’re on your smartphone…

Apr 29, 2015

Creating a responsive table solution for complex schedule data

Apr 29, 2015

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Yellow Pencil Inc.

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