People

The Motives and Mindset of Collaboration

June 18, 2019Kieran MoranAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Comments

One of our core company values at Naimuri is collaboration, and so to encourage this, during the month of May, we made collaboration our ‘Value of the Month’. Most of us know what collaboration is - a definition such as:...

Too Small for Cyber?

June 4, 2019James Ramsden(Pinned) Home Page, Cyber Security, PeopleNo Commentscyber, people

If you’re a small business or charity, the chances are you do not have an in-house software development team. Chances are also high that you don’t have a massive budget to spend on IT provision. Worrying about the seemingly...

National Coding Week at Naimuri

September 21, 2018Matt PierceAgile, Development, PeopleNo Commentscode, coding, codingweek2018, development, people

What is National Coding Week? “National Coding Week is a volunteer-led organisation founded in 2014. It aims to help build people’s confidence and skills by encouraging volunteers to run fun and engaging digital events.” - codingweek.org At Naimuri we have...

Naimuri Summer Party 2018

July 25, 2018Joy PenningtonPeopleNo Comments

Last weekend the Annual Naimuri Summer Party took place at Cranage Hall in Cheshire. It’s a beautiful, classy, Grade II listed estate hotel - the perfect location for Naimuri to take part in giant tripping, inflatable hurdling, penguin egg passing...

Three Peaks Challenge – The Warm Up

June 12, 2018Joy PenningtonPeopleNo Comments

As you may or may not know, Naimuri is raising money for the charity Manchester Mind. The plan is for the group, who are aptly named the "Naimuri Strollers & Striders", to complete the National 3 Peaks Challenge over the weekend of...

Cyber Security & Dealing with GDPR: The Technology Side of the Problem

May 22, 2018Steve AthertonCyber Security, PeopleNo Commentscyber, gdpr

In between the royal wedding and BREXIT, you may have heard a lot in the news about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and would no doubt have received various emails requesting your consent to opt in/opt out of...

Test Automation Pitfalls and How To Avoid Them

March 26, 2018Bryan Barnes(Pinned) Home Page, Development, Peopleautomation

I’ve been software testing for over twenty five years and have dabbled in automation for most of that time, but in the last ten years working on numerous agile projects, automation has become more and more important, to the extent...

Beware! Don’t Take the Bait

February 26, 2018Marie ParkCyber Security, People1

Beware! There's Yet Another Phishing Scam Doing the Rounds Phishing scams, and in this particular case of a SMiShing (SMS Phishing) scam, are becoming increasingly common and seemingly more and more sophisticated in the plausible and realistic forms they take,...

Kaizen at Naimuri

February 21, 2018Dan CarrierAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Comments

Kaizen at Naimuri Kaizen - "change for better" A key part of agile software development is the idea of continuously improving how you work. Retrospectives are a common event for any agile team’s calendar where they have the time to...

Cross Functional Teams

September 12, 2017Ian MakinAgile, People, Ways of WorkingNo Commentsagile, cross-functional, kanban, lean

Grouping teams Any organisations that reach a certain size need to group people together into teams, and one common approach is to create teams around people’s specialisms: the Business Analysis team, the Development team, the Testing team, the Support team...

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