Author Archives: Angela Zhu

Gold plating means intentionally adding extra features or functions to a product or projects you are developing which were not included in the scope statement. Usually, gold plating is performed by either the project team or the project manager with … Read More

As of last year, Amazon Web Services controlled roughly 40 percent of the cloud market, running the backend for Netflix, Pinterest, Slack and dozens of other services with no visible connection to the company. – The Verge, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/28/17622792/plugin-use-the-internet-without-the-amazon-cloud That’s … Read More

The SwiftCase Productivity Podcast team, joined by the new permanent member, Alkis, expand on the concept of “Tethics” – tech ethics – formulated by the HBO show Silicon Valley character Gavin Belson. We discuss it as a real system, which … Read More

As the new year rolls along, so will new problems as well as new solutions. Here is a nod to those incoming issues, or essentially a compilation of the team continuously complaining about the worst problems they’ve encountered in the … Read More

As we bid farewell to 2019, there’s one more very special goodbye we have to say to a very important part of the SwiftCase crew. Craig McCarthy, who has been with us since the start is leaving us to progress … Read More

Welcome back to the future! We get back to talking about what to look forward to in the new decade, what we might not be looking forward to and some of our hopes. If you like what you’ve heard and … Read More

What a time to be alive. Another year out of the way, and the next decade has a lot in store for us, we just don’t know what it is yet – but we can definitely try to guess. Thank … Read More

It’s that time of the year again. In this lightly festive episode of the podcast, our team chat about Christmas shopping and traditions, sharing some of their own tales. Regardless of whether or not you celebrate Christmas, we hope you … Read More

Do high street stores need saving? There are certainly plenty of shops closing down as well as new ones popping up and closing after a few weeks. The number of exclusively online businesses are increasing, and eCommerce is growing and … Read More

This one’s for the workaholics – when do certain careers stop counting as real work? Some say it loses its value when it’s not laborious and physically/mentally challenging, or even damaging. If you like what you’ve heard and want to … Read More