As Speed and Function is interested in continuous development – both its staff and the ecosystem – the company contributed to the event. S&F sees it as a source for IT professionals to share their knowledge and get valuable, hands-on experience. A speaker from the company, Olga Michai, Head of Customer Success Department, shared scrum experience for department operations. It resonated with the audience, and she got a lot of questions and feedback. “It was my second appearance as a speaker at the MNE IT meet-up,” says Olga. “I’m so glad the audience could relate to my presentation. We at Speed and Function are eager to create additional value, no Read more

Here at Speed and Function, we deliver state of the art solutions to help businesses and organizations reach their goals. Our mission is to allow you to harness the power and benefits of technology through our agile development methodologies. We focus on making seamless technologies that exceed your expectations. Since our inception back in 2006, we’ve made ourselves known as one of Philadelphia’s tech assets, creating bespoke solutions geared towards UI to make a lasting impact. What sets us apart is the incredible eye for detail we have. Our clients love working with us because we make sure that their projects are successful and they’re satisfied. In light of our Read more

S&F at Montenegro IT meet up speaking about developmental approach. This approach is a unique value we have in our company. We are proud to work in a company that cares about its people’s personal growth in alignment with business development. We experience the impact of the developmental approach in our everyday working life. And we were happy to share our approach with the IT community, because we strongly believe in its effectiveness. Read more

If you were a fly on the wall in almost any software engineering firm in the world, you’d regularly see certain key scenes unfold: developers writing code, work being done in Sprints, perhaps a hackathon taking place. What is perhaps less common are some of the key practices and ways of working around feedback, transparency and the testing of assumptions that take place here at Speed & Function. There’s a good reason for this: we are an aspiring Deliberately Developmental Organization® (DDO for short). In this article we’ll introduce you to what DDOs are, what makes them different from everyday organizations, and the impact this has on the client experience. Read more

Encore Editions is women-owned, artist-run, online fine art company providing custom prints, framed and unframed, of classic and historic artwork on canvas, paper, poster and even note cards. We have struggled for several years to find the right team for building and maintaining our website. With the other companies we’ve tried we either ran into skyrocketing prices, inefficient functionalities that inevitably damaged our Google ranking, terrible, even sometimes outright rude customer service, sub-par development that we then had to pay for again to fix or improve, and sometimes it was a combination of many of these at once. Any development company can promise up and down that they understand and Read more

Outsourcing refers to hiring an outside, independent firm to perform a business function that internal employees might otherwise perform. Many organizations outsource jobs to specialized service companies, which frequently operate abroad. The outsourcing trend stands to continue and the latest wave of outsourcing impacts the information technology field. IT outsourcing includes data center operations, desktop and help desk support, software development, e-commerce outsourcing, software applications services, network operations and disaster recovery. As with many new technology companies, Speed and Function works with freelancers as well. The key factors which have led to a growing trend of outsourcing in our company are: Read more

Programming and software engineering attract introverted, introspective types of people. This work doesn’t require much social interaction, so it’s natural that it would attract those who aren’t comfortable communicating. Why? Let’s lay out a few reasons: Read more

A current trend among Java developers is to move the user interface entirely to the browser. Using Angular framework on the front end is one of the most popular ways to achieve this. This post will help Java developers integrate their Spring boot applications with Angular 4. Let’s create a bootstrapped application using Spring Initializr. Read more

You’ve probably heard this before. Perhaps it was just after you graduated from university with a degree in an ever-changing field. Or perhaps it was the first line of someone’s speech right before he introduced something innovative. In the world today, especially in the tech world, the worker must never stop building out his/her skillset. Every day innovations in technology make our lives easier and reduce the need for previously well-paid skilled labor. Think about it: when’s the last time you talked to a travel agent? What about a telephone operator? A crop farmer? A coal miner? Sure, these positions still exist, but they are in steep decline. So what Read more

Digital agencies play a critical role with their clients in developing outstanding user experience, branding and marketing. This article will focus on those that deliver user experience. The most creative firms are phenomenal at designing effortless, inspiring interfaces to amaze and engage their clients’ customers. Wired Magazine said of one agency Work & Co. regarding their work for Virgin America: “Beyond the cutesy gloss is the first radical rethinking of the flight booking experience in a decade.” Agencies typically use a collaborative process with clients to research, define and apply creative and analytical methods to improve consumer experiences and increase engagement. Many times the work for their clients will require Read more