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What is Ruby on Rails Used for

What is Ruby on Rails Used for?

Tech

What is Ruby on Rails Used for? Ruby on Rails, commonly known as Rails, is a robust web application ...

Leveraging Construction Technology in Recruiting

August 18, 2022

Hiring

The construction industry will need to attract nearly 650,000 additional workers on top of the ...

9 Categories of the Airship Tech Stack Rubric

Best Practice

There is one certainty in writing software and that is “there are 100 ways to solve the same ...

Get In It - A Guide to Contributing to Open Source Projects

Open Source

I love contributing to free open source software. Throughout my career as a software developer, ...

Life in the Fastlane

Code

Unlike the Eagles song, the Fastlane automation suite “surely [WON'T] make you lose your mind.” ...

How To Have a Good Time with GitHub

December 20, 2016

Open Source

If you see the following image when you log in to GitHub, you're gonna have a bad time. This image ...

Using Rubocop in Atom

September 8, 2016

Code

Recently our team started using Rubocop to maintain code styling. Most of us currently use Atom ...

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Start with: What problem are you trying to solve?

One of the activities we work through revolves around refining your problem statement. A problem statement is the key business problem that needs to be solved. In software development, it states “what has to be done” for a project to succeed. It does not say, “how it has to be done.”

We use the 5W’s + 1 H format as well as the SMART Framework when establishing a problem statement. In fact, you can draft your own problem statement by using our free download. This download will get you thinking through some of the questions and answers prior to starting your project.