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Why is Developing Custom Software Expensive?

Why is Developing Custom Software Expensive?

Written by Dusty Cooper and Alaina Stuckey on

We love to create software that makes a daily, hourly, or even minute-to-minute tasks easier and more efficient for someone. Whether it’s a CRM built for your unique business model or a mobile app holding your identification credentials, the scope of time and effort it takes to create [...]
What is Agile? This is Agile Made Simple.

What is Agile? This is Agile Made Simple.

Written by Dusty Cooper and Alaina Stuckey on

“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams In its simplest form, Agile is  the act of taking one bite at a time. In traditional methods of development and marketing, everything is created in one swoop - eating the elephant in one [...]
The Six Elements of a Sound Discovery Process

The Six Elements of a Sound Discovery Process

Written by Ned Fasullo on

The most important part of any digital project, be it a mobile app, software application, or website, happens before any code is written or any colors are chosen or themes designed. At Envoc, we created our Six Elements of a Sound Discovery Process as a way to deliver a [...]
Don’t Let the Quest for Perfect Ruin Good

Don’t Let the Quest for Perfect Ruin Good

Written by Calvin Fabre on

You have an idea, perhaps a brilliant business venture, a life-changing gadget you thought up, or a new app for your company. You are excited about the possibility of the project but you start getting stuck in the details of how exactly it should look and work. You try to [...]
Putting the “Kick” Into Kickoff Workshops

Putting the “Kick” Into Kickoff Workshops

Written by Unknown on

Kickoff workshops are one of the most important parts of the Envoc Experience. We decided to ditch stale, boring, presentation-style meetings and replace them with fun, collaborative, get-up-out-your-seat activities that pull the team together and launch a project with energy and focus. Get your thinking caps on, people! [...]
How Hard is it to Build an App?

How Hard is it to Build an App?

Written by Brian Rigsby on

Seemingly simple software and app development projects often pose many unexplored questions and problems. Even the most basic software solutions may have dozens of decisions behind them. In this post, we’ll take you through an example of how an "easy" task actually plays out in the development [...]
Why We Don’t Offshore and Why You Shouldn’t Either

Why We Don’t Offshore and Why You Shouldn’t Either

Written by Calvin Fabre on

Every week, we receive multiple calls from offshore companies offering software development services for as low as $11 an hour. Does the huge profit margin seem tempting? Maybe—but we turn them down every time. Here's a few reasons why: We Can't Guarantee the Work Envoc builds relationships [...]