Lessons and insights from our work building great software and teams.
Topics: Inside Truss | Practitioner Insights
Your team has published your first Accessibility Conformance Report or VPAT. Hooray! But now what? If your team works in an agile style, that system is going to keep getting updated and changed. How do you make sure it is accurate and up to date?
Read MoreThe fifth and final in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work. We wrap up by describing in general how we set measurable goals and tracked progress overall and from iteration to iteration.
Read MoreThe fourth in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work. Here we describe how our processes affect users and the bottom line improvement for that investment.
Read MoreThe third in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work. In this post we share our protocol for getting stuff done with maximum accountability.
Read MoreThe second in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work, covering our continuous development practices (CI/CD) and use of decision records
Read MoreThe first in a series of posts covering our unemployment insurance modernization work, including continuous development practices (CI/CD), agile and iterative culture, and user experience (UX) design.
Read MoreFollow along with the Space Force Portal team’s recent journey to completing their first accessibility compliance report for their platform
Read MoreSo you’ve been told your project needs to be “accessibility compliant”? What does that even mean? Should your team be doing more?
Read MoreIf designers should know how their product may be engineered, they should also know how it may be productized.
Read MoreA look at the year-long process we took as a company to transition to transparent salaries, including our motivations, methodology, and what we discovered along the way.
Read MoreWith over 60 people, spread across four U.S. time zones, and two brand new practice areas, it finally felt like the appropriate time to get the crew together for our first ever full-team offsite.
Read MoreThere are no better eyes to see the inner workings of Truss through than those of a shiny new Trussel Sprout. So we sat down with our newest delivery manager to get her raw and unfiltered thoughts on her first week on the team.
Read MoreWhile there are lively debates about whether or not the Future is Distributed, at Truss we’re having a pretty solid time of it. Running online meetings is just the beginning of making sure your distributed team is included, and we’re continually working to improve our distributed practices.
Read MoreOver time, our sense of how to best use Slack has evolved. Some of our innovations have proven much less useful than others; some took on a life of their own. This is the story of how we discovered that a default Slack setup should come with one additional channel that proved more vital than we imagined when it was created.
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