A collection of stories and thoughts from the craft focused teams of Umbrage Studios. Latest June 10, 2021 What We Wish Our Clients Knew About DevOps Enterprise companies routinely fall into a cycle of relying on engineers to build a user-facing product only to become frustrated when the end users are unhappy with the product and refuse to use it. By prioritizing DevOps and infrastructure at the very beginning of the product cycle, your team can
June 3, 2021 Getting Dev Ready Kicking off a software project successfully is no small feat. At Umbrage, we really strive to set the tone for success before the development work even begins. We make sure we have the right people in the room and that we utilize the right types of research to align on
May 25, 2021 Taking the First Step Together In our first post, we discussed how to assemble the correct project team to ensure a successful delivery. Once all the right people are together, it’s time to put them in the room and get the project underway. For us, that begins with a kickoff meeting. Setting the kickoff
May 14, 2021 You've Signed the SOW, Now What? The signatures on the contract are fresh and now it’s time for the real work to begin. But before your team starts moving cards in Jira or ADO, there’s some groundwork to do to ensure the project is set up for success. The iterative software product development process
April 8, 2021 Industrialize Your MVP: Why your product team can’t please their users The enterprise excels at making first drafts. But enterprise companies routinely fall short at improving on that initial version and adding true value to their users. At Umbrage, part of the value we deliver to our clients is creating a product-first vision that enables them to industrialize their initial products.
March 23, 2021 It’s Time to Deliver Today is a special day at Umbrage, and a major milestone. We are excited to announce that we have closed our seed round of funding. You can read the official press release here, but I wanted to take a few moments to reflect on the journey so far. On a
March 22, 2021 We Are Umbrage Umbrage is a legion of creatives united by a passion to design, develop and deliver consumer-quality digital solutions and experiences to the enterprise and we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves. Design ThinkingNot long ago, the enterprise was told it needed to be more “user-centric” when contemplating a
