Don’t let your team retrospectives become stale

Y’know those necessary evils that employees typically have to endure in an office environment? Annual reviews, timesheet updates, planning meetings, weekly reports etc. Depending on the scenario (and who’s in charge of it), it can be an utter pain — a distraction from the “actual work” they should be doing. I’ll be honest, some of […]

Hour of Code brings computer science and youthful smiles to statehouse

The Indiana statehouse was turned into a giant computer science lab on Tuesday as Governor Eric Holcomb, AT&T Indiana President Bill Soards, Infosys Foundation USA Chairperson Kaustav Mitra, Indiana University First Lady Laurie Burns McRobbie, and Karen Jung and Scott Dorsey of Nextech all welcomed students from local grade schools and their high school-aged coding […]

Hottest tech jobs for the Greater Indianapolis area in 2017

As the year 2017 comes to a close, we’re hearing about how it was a record-breaking year for job growth and job creation in Fishers and Indianapolis and other communities in the Greater Indy area, and a great many of these jobs are tech jobs. Tech is a hot field nationally with high-paying roles covering […]

Winning ‘Rising Star’ helped Lindsay Siovaila grow Girl Develop It and spotlight tech diversity

Lindsay Siovaila is the graphic designer and self-taught software developer who accelerated her career into full-time development at Salesforce after creating an app on her own that caught the attention of then CEO Scott McCorkle and influenced the Marketing Cloud’s enterprise email tool. Today she’s a lead solutions developer with Salesforce and she’s a well-known […]

HR’s important role in fast-growing startups and scale-ups

HR is a critical component of startup and scale-up technology companies, but it is often seen as a priority for hiring talent as a company grows quickly to bring a product to market. A founder or company executive might be used to “playing HR” when making hires or developing policies, but how do you know when […]