Technology The next AI winter is coming, and that’s great AI is hitting a wall because it has to. The boom was never going to deliver all the goods that were promised. And this is because AI is about the most difficult technical problem there is.
Technology AR You Ready for the Future? Part 1: Getting Started with ARKit on iOS We at productOps are using augmented reality as a means of elevating mobile apps from the informative to the experiential. This blog provides a quick glance at ARKit, its engaging features, impressive visuals, and widely applicable toolkit.
Methodology Designing for Human Emotions Designing for emotional humans can be a daunting task. Most of the time as designers we approach this by simplifying the problem and finding ways to group users together into easily identifiable traits. If only it were that easy.
Case Study New Tech Network Brings Project-Based Learning To Public Schools ProductOps was called in to help at a critical juncture when NTN needed to switch Learning Management System (LMS) platforms from an outdated, unsupported application to their next-generation LMS for project-based learning and multi-outcome scoring.
Community CruzHacks 2019 a Success CruzHacks brought together teams from all over the Bay Area and beyond on the weekend of January 18-20. Talented young engineers packed the Stevenson Event Center on the University of California Santa Cruz campus to compete in various categories.
Methodology Pivotal Tracker: Keeping Ourselves and Our Customers On Track To be effective we are required to integrate quickly into a company's internal workings and culture to execute projects that will move their business forward. Fundamental to this is project management software that is intuitive to use, fast to on-board users, and easy to share.
Careers Specific Perils of the Generalist As the moniker suggests, we generalists often don't fit into one tidy role. This can feel like a career liability. It gets lonely if you consistently feel like an outsider, never 100% matched to any particular role.
Careers Generalists. I love you, specifically. I'm happy to have found a workplace that explicitly values generalists. As a consulting firm, productOps' employees have to be versatile. Individual employees often participate in multiple diverse projects in the span of a year. We have to hire based on more than our needs for the project du jour.
Community Fluro Friday Comes To Santa Cruz To "Free The Funk" "Fluro Friday", where everyone is encouraged to show up to the beach in fluorescent colors to raise awareness for mental health, comes to Santa Cruz.
Business Strategy How Netflix and Twitter Bucked The Usual Rise and Decline of Organizations What business leaders can do to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and turn their firms into ones that buck the trend of the seemingly inexorable forces that shape how companies evolve. There is evidence that great helmsmanship can make a real difference to outcomes.
Company Culture A Guide To Who And What We Are At productOps we’re particular about who’s on our team. We want brilliant people who will impress our clients with their abilities, organization and tenacity. So what do we look for?
Business Strategy Developer Culture, Improvised What organizational culture strategy looks like when it’s informed by the science of improvisation, with five key insights to help you boost your team’s effectiveness.
Case Study Tying investments to outcomes with California Community Colleges The NOVA software platform was designed and developed by productOps to increase student success rates through more efficient and relevant program creation, better fund management, and enhanced data management across the entire California Community College System.
Business Strategy Using Complex Systems Research To Predict Organizational Life Span Alex Lamb demonstrates how to model the arc, a developmental curve that appears to describe the rise and fall of a large number of companies, and discuss what real world factors might be behind it.
Agile Making Agile Stick: Developer lessons from the world’s most adaptive art-form Tools from improv theatre capable of building on Agile best-practices to supercharge your team and take their cooperation and effectiveness to the next level.
Events productOps sponsors CruzHacks 2019 ProductOps is proud to sponsor CruzHacks 2019. This non-profit hackathon, which is free to participants, creates an environment in which high school and college students work collaboratively to learn new skills and hone their talents.
Technology Trends Succeeding in Computer Science Requires More Than Theoretical Education Today, a computer science bachelor’s degree may be incomparable to experience with popular developer tools and platforms.
Careers The 3 Essential Skills Needed to Become a UX Pro Empathy, communication, and an innate understanding of how and what it means to solve problems collaboratively, provide the foundation that all other design skills and specialties are built upon.
Automating Accessibility In Angular Crystal Finch is a user experience engineer for productOps and in this blog tackles some of the challenges of making applications accessible to all people, regardless of disability type.
Events Reaching Into The Future With Experience Design Kuniavsky’s presentation reinforced for me the fundamental importance of this aspect of the research/discovery phase, and the importance of getting out of the day to day of design work and sharing ideas with like minded creatives in a public forum.
My Internship Was Not What I Expected I was afraid I would have to accept my first offer no matter how little it appealed to me and was concerned I wouldn't be able to develop my interests before obtaining a diploma.
Data Science The Curious Truth About Organizational Longevity Tech companies seem to provide a remarkably clear signal because their lifespans are often short and their social impacts frequently enormous.
Agile What Does Agile Mean To Us? productOps is privileged to have an experienced leadership team. Many of them remember when the Agile Manifesto was first published, and it evoked mixed feelings. It was like someone had written down what they had already been doing for a long time.
Agile The Comedy of Agile What does improv comedy have to do with agile development? Far more than you might think… Alex Lamb joined productOps in 2017 and specializes in software design, architecture and development with an emphasis
Agile The Most Important Product Feature Bob Cagle is productOps co-founder and CEO. Twenty-two years of experience in the trenches have not blunted his natural exuberance and optimism. Bob thinks better near a whiteboard, is a wizard with Excel, and believes there is an entrepreneur in everyone.