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Making scary decisions - Part 2: Why we say no to some projects

How we work on projects that ensure that we’re developing as a company – and providing that same opportunity to our SOUTHIES.

Telling it like it is – why we share our eNPS® feedback, unvetted and company-wide

Making scary decisions, Part 1: First in our four-part miniseries, we look at why transparency is important in making SOUTHWORKS a great place to work

How data helps us get it right – and prove it

Data helps us motivate our staff, steer our ship in the right direction and show our clients how we’re doing. That’s exactly why we place a lot of focus on making SOUTHWORKS a data-driven organization

Prioritizing strategic quick wins is our platform for ongoing success

Our focus on strategic quick wins originated in project work, but it’s now something we apply throughout SOUTHWORKS

Our business grows when we focus on the “what” and let our SOUTHIES focus on the “how”

By stepping back to reveal the bigger picture, we can plot our course as a company more effectively

Dev-intensity is how we stay sharp to combine quick throughput with winning results

To succeed in our work, we need to maintain both velocity and progress - our philosophy for achieving these twin outcomes is called Dev-Intensity

How cultivating autonomy and trust helps us succeed

Our two key approaches for a high-trust, high-autonomy environment that allows us to flourish

How daily “stand-ups” keep our remote teams ticking over

Embracing the spirit of "stand-up" meetings in our written communications to ensure we Make Everything Right in our project communications

How we relay information to keep things running smoothly

The clean hand-off principle and the default action principle: how we communicate efficiently and keep things moving.

Our Six Principles for Effective Communication

As we’ve learned how to improve communication over the years, we’ve assembled some simple principles to help our SOUTHIES

What it means to have an async culture

Async is our thing – it’s a big part of how we’ve always worked. It's how we make communication right in a globally distributed company.

Building a culture of productivity, one Wednesday at a time

Why we introduced company-wide, structured Focus Time at SOUTHWORKS.

Our evolution to flexible working: How we “left the office” in 2019

How SOUTHWORKS transitioned from being largely office centred to a fully remote-first company

At SOUTHWORKS, remote has always come first

‍Developing a flexible remote-first culture that works right from the start

SOUTHIE Story: Florencia Otero, a long-term SOUTHIE still growing like crazy

We interview Flor Otero, Software Engineer at SOUTHWORKS, on IWD 2022

Fraud Detection applying Unsupervised Learning techniques

Building a ‘Mental Health Monitoring’ App with AWS AI Services — Part III

Continuous integration for Smart Contracts

Building a ‘Mental Health Monitoring’ App with AWS AI Services — Part II

Short intro to Hyperledger Fabric Service

Health-Care: A Secure Electronic Medical Record Scenario over Blockchain

The 2021 Reboot: A fresh new look and feel for SOUTHWORKS

We are thrilled to launch our new brand ID and website. It’s a 2021 reboot!

Scalable Real Time Data Analysis with Apache Spark Structured Streaming

Creating a Jenkins pipeline for a .NET Core application

Handling Dark/Light Modes in WPF

Power BI: Custom table with dynamic header titles

Real-Time Insights from Sport Events using the Azure Data Stack

Power BI: Styling Custom Visuals

Big things happen when you Make Everything Right™

Not many young companies that are born in Argentina — or anywhere else — grow from 35 to 350 employees in three short years.

CI pipeline for a Swift application using Azure DevOps

Linking reports on Power BI Embedded

Sometimes, a bad joke is the only thing there to help out

I still had a couple hours until my technical workshop at Women Who Code Connect Forward started...

Building a ‘Mental Health Monitoring’ App with AWS AI Services — Part I

Developing Desktop Apps for Windows: XAML Islands vs WinUI vs UWP

Monitoring a Printed Circuit Board factory in near-real time

Extending Power BI with Custom Visuals

Smart Contracts in the Retail Industry

An introduction to Smart Contracts

Movie Data Statistics with Apache Spark

Introduction to Pulumi

Investing In Our Expertise Is How We ‘Prove It’ To Our Customers

It’s true that 2020 has been a pretty bleak year for everyone… well, on planet Earth.

My Experience at SOUTHWORKS

Hey there! My name is Ned Machulsky...

SOUTHIE Stories: How a musician-turned-programmer built his career on a love of learning

Meet Andrés Rodriguez Schiller…

SOUTHIE Stories: How an ambitious software engineer found her dream culture

‍Meet Denise Scollo...

SOUTHIE Stories: How a full stack developer developed her career

Meet Daniela Peña…

Our focus on your security

We prove it. So you always know exactly where you stand.

The silence is eerie. Another day just went by without a project update.

We bring it. So you get the speed without the shortcuts.

Why is outsourcing slowing you down when the whole point of it was to speed things up? ‍

We own it. So you don’t have to.

Here we go again.... The “agile” team of remote developers you hired turned out to be order-takers who actually aren’t that great at taking orders.

What does it mean to Make Everything Right?

“Make Everything Right™” is a promise, a commitment, to having high standards and doing things well in a world where others often cut corners.

#MakeEverythingRight

I am really happy to share our new brand identity.

How can I contribute? An open source eye-opening guide

Build 2018 — Day 2 Summary

Build 2018 — Day 1 Summary

AI made easy with Windows Machine Learning (Preview)

How-To: Query your Room using Spatial Understanding with HoloLens to detect Walls and Horizontal Surfaces

How-To: Use Spatial Understanding to Query your Room with HoloLens

Adding a guest user to an Office 365 SharePoint site with JavaScript and Azure Functions

Calling Microsoft Graph API from an Azure Function using JavaScript

New Azure Media Services SDK for Java release with Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication support

Last week, the Azure Media Services team released a new version of the Azure Media Services SDK for Java, SOUTHWORKS dev team provides some details about the new AAD authentication support

.NET Conf UY 2017 and Nodeconf Ar 2017

Microsoft Future Decoded at London