Posts Tagged ‘IT’

One of the biggest things that a programmer/developer/coder wants to improve is his coding speed. This skill can be improved throughout the time while you are gaining experience. Of course, many different tools allow you to “cheat” while you are coding; for example, Emmet is a plugin that provides you with some code snippets to […]

Home office has become a very efficient tool for many companies; this consists, as its name says, in working from home. This modality is not as new as it’s believed, according to a post named “¿Conoces la historia del Home Office?” written by Avril Rojas: in the 70s it was proposed by Jack Nilles when […]

Scrum is just one of the Agile frameworks for managing projects/products, but it is one of the best known. While the most important thing is adhering to an agile mindset and principles, there are specific practices that define Scrum–and ensure its benefits.  But, what do the aforementioned “agile mindset and principles” mean? Well, there is […]

This “Socio Formador” journey began way before this year in my scenario. Somehow I knew eventually that I would become some sort of teacher. It is not my dream job but, I remember back when Inflection Point hired me, I was a 21-year-old kid who knew nothing, and thanks to the great support that I […]

In an increasingly globalized world, it is very common to find multicultural work teams, made up mostly of professionals from different countries, who contribute with great ideas and opinions to the company, since they greatly enrich the problem-solving. However, we must bear in mind that cultural diversity has a price: we can face significant disadvantages […]

Tailwind CSS is a CSS framework described as follows: “A utility-first CSS framework packed with classes like flex, pt-4, text-center and rotate-90 that can be composed to build any design, directly in your markup”. – Tailwind CSS official documentation Tailwind’s goal is to “Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML” (tailwind css 2022). If you ask me, this is quite a […]

Today I have been reflecting on one of the values of my company: Life Balance, and what it represents in today’s society, especially in my country. We know that in Mexico we work a longer business working day than in other countries, that we take fewer days off each year, and please, let’s not forget […]

Help desks are often the first point of contact for both customers and employees seeking support, a solution to a problem, workflow guidance, and more. Providing your teams with efficient and user-friendly ways to interact with those in need of support is expensive. Off-the-shelf solutions often provide unwanted functionality and are cost-prohibitive. On the other […]

“CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise – and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.” – Goleman. Emotional intelligence is the capacity that allows us to become aware of our emotions, understand the feelings of others, tolerate the pressures and frustrations we endure at work, increase our capacity for empathy and our […]

The IT Mission Considering the increasing cyber threats, our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asked our IT manager to elevate the IT security systems of our business unit by a notch above its current state. He had a week to come up with a plan for the same. The IT manager left for the day […]

It is not easy for a company to survive times of uncertainty and radical changes in all aspects (economic, technological, political, etc). However, IT companies have survived and grown enormously in times of pandemics. It has been almost 2 years since the pandemic began. Two years full of challenges and changes for many companies around […]

An important aspect of being a Great Place to work is having a great job environment in which people know each other and their achievements and great performance are acknowledged. We know how important it is to make our peers feel seen and appreciated and a great example of that is our yearly QA Team […]