The healthcare industry suffers from many challenges. Understaffed, with limited budgets and piling up challenges of other nature, the sector is looking for a breakthrough. Well, there might be one but not in the previously mentioned areas. Meet Ecomedic – a company founded to guide medical professionals through sustainability issues.

Scalable Agile Framework (SaFe) is one of the IT industry’s most effective project management models. The key here is a flexible approach to tasks and processes. SAFe delivers business value in the shortest time possible, and elements like planning, team cooperation or risk management are daily bread. It’s great for implementing Agile practices at an enterprise scale. Learn how to scale Agile and benefit from in the modern fintech organization.

The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a seismic shift in the way companies operate, accelerating the adoption of remote work. Initially seen as a temporary solution to an unprecedented global crisis, remote work has proven to be more than a stopgap measure. Instead, it has emerged as a viable, efficient, and effective way to manage a company. The history of the dispersed model of company operation has a much longer track record. Code&Pepper has been operating this way for over a decade. Implementing such a work system is not complicated, but it needs to be done wisely. Check what we learned during those years.

When properly understood and utilized, artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool to not only boost but also enhance software development and digital products. What AI software development tools are out there, why it’s a good idea to use them, and how our company is working with them to further product development?

Today, doing business without a cloud seems like implementing a handicap. You can do it but don’t expect a lot of flexibility and options. With pay-per-use approach and multiple services available from top cloud providers, you can scale your business in a reasonable timeframe. The problem – it also has to be secure. How to introduce cloud to your organization and make it safe at the same time? Here’s some tips on cloud security.

Finding a suitable employee can be a pain in the neck, especially in IT, where skilled developers rarely seek for new job opportunities on their own and screening less experienced ones is a must. But can it all be simplified? Apparently, yes. There are dozens of useful recruitment tools that can help you, as an HR department representative. Let’s find what they are and how they can make your work more effective!

Imagine you have a beautiful tree with a potential to bear fruit every season. It doesn’t come for free—you have to tend to it. Water the seedling, shelter from extreme weather conditions, protect from pests. Manage resources, so they can last for months. The same goes for successful project management. Many companies, especially startups, have great ideas and deep domain knowledge but lack project management skills to build products with long-lasting impact. Here’s a shortlist of key success factors and handy solutions provided by companies like ours.

“Stay home” is probably going to be the most exploited phrase of 2020. The consequences of global lockdown will loom large for years, turning the job market upside down. However, one thing hasn’t changed – you can’t go wrong with stepping up your professional game by gaining confirmed knowledge and skills. Read on to discover Scrum Master certifications tailored to different professional areas of the IT industry.

Talent acquisition is one of the most complex organizational processes, with immense impact on businesses in the long run. When paired with the crude fact that great leaders are nothing without great teams, the importance of an effective and sustainable recruitment strategy becomes self-evident. Team augmentation clients are therefore setting the course for the future and Code & Pepper is honoured to contribute its unique know-how to their success on the FinTech scene.

Do you ever have an impression that the concept of transparency in software development could be more… transparent? In every company, it can mean something entirely different and, just like any other industry practice, it has fluid boundaries. At Code & Pepper, we start our transparency policy by explaining what it stands for and what aspects of cooperation it involves. Here we go with project transparency explained for every step of the way.

Let’s imagine you’ve made it this far: your FinTech idea is rock-solid, the market research is an all-night read and you’re on first names terms with the most wanted VCs. Having gone far and beyond in shaping your vision and giving your business a head start, it’s high time you covered all bases by exploring the why’s, what’s and how’s of product development. The five FAQs below should give you more insight into the intricacies of product development with the peppery flavour of our custom approach. With a pinch of Agile and a drop of Lean, it might be that acquired taste you’re looking for to give your product an edge.

“You better work” is where most businesses start… but what if you’ve done all the work you can, the product still has a huge potential to reach, and there’s only 24 hours in a day? All the signs in the sky and on earth point to hiring more people, and team augmentation is a service model that works like a charm. How? Learn about the essence of team augmentation and its benefits from the business, technical, and human resources point of view.