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Open-source at Alley: What we were up to in 2022

Open-source software is central to Alley’s mission and essential to our work. In the last few months, we’ve published several new open-source packages for PHP, JavaScript, and WordPress developers, each of which is rooted in our day-to-day experiences meeting the needs of our clients. We’re delighted to highlight some of these new packages and invite

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No Blockers

My favorite Scrum event is the Daily Scrum. While often overshadowed by its flashier siblings — the dramatic demos of the Sprint Review or iterative improvements from a productive Retrospective — the Daily Scrum is essential for a Scrum team’s successful delivery of their Sprint commitments. Previously known as the exclusionary Daily Standup (not everyone

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Alley is WordPress VIP’s Gold Partner of the Quarter

Since the inception of the WordPress VIP partner program in 2012, our team has been committed to supporting the open-source WordPress ecosystem and we look forward to our continued collaboration with WordPress VIP.

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A RenderATL Welcome into the Tech World

One of the reasons I love Alley is because they provide opportunities for you to attend incredible conferences like RenderATL.

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Alley’s Inaugural March Emoji Madness Tournament

At Alley, we pride ourselves on being creative and having fun outside of the projects we work on for our clients.

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How to automate CI checks for PRs in WordPress delivery

Watch the video to learn some of the ways we automate code quality checks. These checks ensure we ship higher-quality code with less time and effort, and a higher success rate than manual review.

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MVP for Marketing – Realizing Helperbot’s Publicity

How do you approach marketing on a small budget and tight timeline? Create an MVP for marketing just like you do for product development!

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The Product Development of Helperbot

Minimum Viable Product is a great agile concept. Here’s how we applied it to our Helperbot product development process.

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3 People-First Principles for Making your Hiring Process Transparent and Equitable

We know the importance of valuing people and have set up systems and best practices for making our employees feel cared for starting long before they accept an offer to work with us. Here are three people-first principles we’ve incorporated into our hiring process that you can try too.

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Accessibility and Strategy: How They Interact

Check out our latest video hosted by Product Manager Allison Greenwald and former Digital Strategist Rebecca Viser, Accessibility and Strategy: How They Interact, discussing ways to create content that’s accessible for everyone.

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The Origin of Helperbot

Understand the story behind Helperbot, our asynchronous Scrum solution for distributed and co-located teams – built by the Alley team.

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Store-y Points

The Scrum world is replete with creative and delightful symbolic stand-ins meant to help people get good with story pointing.

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Introducing our Three-Part Product Chats Video Series on Data Visualization

Take some time to check out our three-part Product Chats video series on Data Visualization by former Digital Strategist Rebecca Viser and Senior UX Designer Ben Myers.

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