Stride Staff

  We just hit 100 PRs at Qwell (a Stride Client)! This is a big milestone and the result of months of effort from the team. Even though we’re no where near being done we wanted to take the time to reflect on how things have gone so far.   What we’ve ... read more

QCon New York 2017 kicked off yesterday! Matt Sakaguchi, Site Reliability Manager at Google kicked the conference off with a stellar keynote about how Google builds effective teams. Following the keynote, Stride’s CEO, Debbie Madden, gave a talk on The ... read more

As a CTO, you are responsible for many of the critical elements of project success. Good CTO's produce quality projects. Great CTO's create an environment that promotes collaboration, creativity and utilizes team members individual strengths to make the ... read more

As a software developer, every day is an opportunity to learn something new. Even the most seasoned software engineers are continually learning new tactics that help them be more effective leaders, developers, and team members. We sat down with ... read more

Test Driven Development, or TDD, provides software engineers with valuable insight during the development process. For some developers, it's key to creating higher quality software in a fraction of the time. However, for those new to TDD, it can be ... read more

At Stride, unlocking a team's hidden potential is one of our passions. We believe that through collaboration and proper management, every team has the ability to be great. However, managing a team does come with it's challenges. Building a great team ... read more

Retrospectives can be great tools to enable product development teams to iterate and improve on their process when done properly.  read more

At first, Ubiquitous Language (UL) sounds like a science fictional, trans-galactic version of Esperanto. In real life, it's a tool for teams of Domain Driven Design software developers. read more

Regardless of the industry, every team leader is always asking themselves the same question: "What can I do to make my team more productive?" No matter how well your team is performing, there is always room for improvement. As a team leader, especially ... read more

Success in an Agile setting is more dependent on a high-performing team than it is on individual performance. Well-operated, collaborative teams are innovative, efficient, and produce better results for their clients.  One ingredient for success in high ... read more

Agile is both the present and the future of software development. You know that as well as we do, so we won't bore you with the plethora of benefits that come with this development philosophy. But your boss does not, and might not be as quick to adopt an ... read more

The presentation is starting, and you recognize one word out of the entire presentation: Hello. Software developers are throwing around words like it's their job (which it is), but you are completely lost. You've heard words like "agile," "scrum," and ... read more