Need Custom Software? Here are the Pros & Cons of Hiring Steele Consulting vs. an In-House Developer
Here’s our usual song: 1) Clients hire us for a project — usually a side project that their core developers can’t get to. 2) They realize they like working with us, and we get hired to do more projects. 3) We become an extended part of their...
Unlocking the 5 Well-Kept Secrets for a Fantastic Company Culture
Creating a consistent culture across your company (especially if you have remote locations) can be tricky at best. It was hard enough before, when we were all in the same building, but now it’s even harder with the move to more remote work due to COVID-19. However,...
Case Study: Responsive Learning Exceeds the Technological Demands of the Immediate Shift to Online Education
About Responsive Learning Responsive Learning is an online company that provides administrators and school faculty with the training and resources they need to meet compliance requirements, provide continuing education opportunities, and stay trained and updated with...
Here’s How Steele Consulting is Safely Celebrating Christmas in 2020! (Pandemics won’t stop this party).
You may think a group of software developers doesn’t know how to party, but oh, how wrong you are. Although our drive and focus here at Steele Consulting is to provide quality custom software for our clients, we also happen to be experts on the office Christmas...
Want the Most Out of Your Custom Software Product? Be a Legendary Product Owner!
The best software products come out of legendary client-developer collaborations. When we build a custom software product for your business, we want that product to effortlessly support your operational needs and goals. That’s why the best products come out of...
Want to Know How to Make Your IT Department Better? Apply this Critical Perspective Shift.
According to the unmatched wisdom of Investopedia: A cost center is a department or function within an organization that does not directly add to profit but still costs the organization money to operate. Reality check: IT departments are not cost centers. Yes,...
Here’s What to Expect When You Work With Steele Consulting
At any given moment, you can access our website and take a look at our vision for this company: To love, grow, and radically serve our customers, our team, and our community. Our core values are how we implement this vision: being kind, pursuing excellence, expressing...
Why is Custom Software so Expensive?
Let’s face it. Custom software is expensive. (We’re sure you’re very surprised to hear this.) But why is it so expensive? And more importantly, is it actually worth it? If you manage an SMB with ever-growing technical needs, we’re sure you’ve tossed around the idea of...
What to Expect When You’re Expecting…Custom Software.
So, you’ve decided to hire a developer to build custom software for your company. That’s great! (And we don’t just say that because we’re software developers.) (Well, maybe a little.) Whether you’ve already hired a software development company or you’re still looking,...
5 Investments Steele Consulting Implemented to Lower Our Tech Turnover Rate
First, the bad news. LinkedIn discovered that the tech turnover rate is the highest of any industry, at over 13.2%. The highest of any industry. And we’ve seen it much worse in specific technology hubs. As a technology company that’s just as...
Making Work Visible
Every project manager’s biggest struggle is improving workflow. Strategies, systems, and techniques have been developed in an attempt to alleviate this struggle, but they often don’t expose or address root issues. This is where visible work is needed
Making work visible helps uncover hidden issues that are wasting time and slowing down your workflow.
Intro to React
Photo by Artem Sapegin What is React? React is a flexible Javascript library created by Facebook in 2011 that handles the View in traditional MVC model apps. React lets you create highly efficient and reusable UI’s known as components that encapsulate logic in its own...