Software projects are  packed chock-full of Risk. It’s important to acknowledge the risks and to mitigate them. How you address the risks depends on which type of “project process” you are following. The two types of project processes that I have experienced are Agile-type and Waterfall-type projects. In this post I list some of the common ways to mitigate well-known risks for both these project types. When given a choice...

At New Media Labs we strive to be awesome. We want to deliver great solutions to our clients and have fun doing so. In the dynamic software development industry you need to experiment, adapt and find out how to be super-efficient without sacrificing quality. It’s a challenge. In this series of blog posts I will describe in detail the things we do and why those things work so well. Problem Nr1: Broken Code Any reasonably sized...

Adora is a marketing CMS platform that is currently being developed by Global Vision and is being built to replace their highly successful current offering, Eureka.  The driving force behind Adora is communication, not just marketing, through all effective communications channels.  Using Adora, marketers will be able to communicate effectively with consumers and be able to maintain a complete picture of consumer relationships to their...

New Media Labs has commenced development of an Online Auction system for an existing client. Originally an eBay mashup was considered but the business case to build an in house auction system was stronger than the case for a mashup. The notification systems, rules engine and content management system to load the auction items is going to make this a fun development exercise. Repeat orders from existing clients, proving once again that NML...

New Media Labs has received signoff of development and testing of custom Niche Social Network for a leading international private bank. The development was completed in four, three week SCRUM sprints with a development team of four. Given the scale of this project, and the technical complexity of tieing into the banking backend this was an amazing achievement. Microsoft is now working in collaboration with New Media Labs to generate a case...

New Media Labs in collaboration with Global Vision and Stonewall+ won the bid to redevelop the Nedgroup Investments Content Management System. The creative pitch from Stonewall+ was excellent, this coupled with our technology pitch made the decision to go Stonewall+/NML/GV a no brainer. NML will be doing the dev, GV will be providing Business Analysis, Project Management and Testing services. Our base layer CMS was used for the development....