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  • In this digital art, some programming code is shown while other parts of it is faded out.

    Three approaches to identifying the best CMS for your business

    In the world of content management systems, there are many approaches you could consider when building your website. Today we’ll look at three popular options: traditional WordPress, JAMstack, and decoupled WordPress.

  • Rejecting master for main

    We all know that words carry power. A person’s word choice can make or break a conversation, a motto, or even a simple salutation. Seeing GitHub taking action with word choice, I decided to replace the default branch of this website’s repo from master to main.

  • Audience revenue, social networks, and disinformation

    Lede, Alley’s platform for journalism startups, is our answer to scaling the technology needed by news organizations.

  • Alley Joins Time To Vote to promote voter turnout

    We are proud to announce that Alley has joined Time To Vote, a business-led nonpartisan project aimed at increasing voter participation in the upcoming presidential election.

  • A group of post-its on the wall, with a hand pulling off one that says "User Survey"

    How to avoid writing bad survey questions

    Surveys can be a valuable way to get data directly from your users. But only if the questions are well-thought out. We discuss some of the most frequent mistakes people make, and how to avoid them.

  • Laptop on table with coffee, pad of paper and pen

    Is WordPress the right platform for your organization? Addressing common concerns.

    While the many benefits of WordPress are well-known — it’s free and open-source, it features a user-friendly content editor, it makes SEO easy — WordPress is plagued by misconceptions about its perceived weaknesses.

  • Invisible disabilities and the web

    In this video we explore what it means to have an invisible disability and how that impacts the way you design and build products.

  • How to start a podcast

    There were a few essential things that we needed before starting our own podcast, Two Scrums Up. If you’re thinking of starting one, here are some things to keep in mind.

  • Scrum values and community values

    Alley’s core company values of quality, transparency and accountability closely align with the values of Scrum and, more broadly, the principles of agile software development. However, recent events have led us to consider how the practice of Scrum also supports our community values – radical candor, psychological safety, asynchronous communication, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Manual burndown charts: How and why to make them

    One of the easiest ways to answer the question of productivity is relatively simple: Make work visible. How? Try a manual burndown chart. Here’s how.

  • How to select and prepare great code samples

    As more and more companies go remote, it will become increasingly more common to provide code samples with résumés. How should you select your code samples? What should you do to prepare them? Here are five things I look for when reviewing code samples.

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