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Innovating Energy Management: How IntelliTect Helped Enhance Development Capacity and Drive Architectural Excellence

Rob McFarland — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:22:36 +0000

Background A global leader in energy and water management solutions, operates in over 100 countries, providing utilities and cities with innovative tools to manage resources efficiently. Their extensive portfolio includes intelligent networks, software, meters, and sensors designed to optimize resource usage and promote conservation. With a mission to safeguard the world’s resources and improve the…

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Demystifying Agile Project Team Intercommunication

Reese — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:50:28 +0000

Composing the Perfect Agile Project Team A software project’s complexity is proportional to the agile project team’s size. The problem of team size is not specific to software engineers; people in other industries, such as music, deal with it as well. One of the most significant constraints to successful project completion is poor communication within…

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IntelliTect Today: Increasing Diversity in Tech

Allen — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:36:49 +0000

How We’re Navigating the Challenges of Diverse Hiring, and Why It Matters It’s no secret that Big Tech has made little progress regarding diverse hiring, with the significant majority of employees still identifying as white males. Pushes to expand the applicant pool and foster a culture that celebrates diversity appear to fall upon deaf ears,…

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Open-source Software: A Good Decision for Microsoft?

Mark Michaelis — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:30:47 +0000

Evaluating Microsoft’s Transition to Open Source with Microsoft RD and MVP Mark Michaelis Microsoft made the monumental corporate strategy shift to open-source several years ago. Looking back on the decision to go "all in" on open source, now is an excellent time to evaluate if this has been a good decision for the tech giant.…

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Demystifying the Requirements-Gathering Environment

Chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:24:44 +0000

Define Problems and Voice Client-Clarifying Questions With Confidence A non-trivial part of a successful software consultant’s job is understanding what the client’s problem is. A significant impediment to that problem is walking away from discussions and requirements gathering meetings knowing you don’t understand the issue but feel uncomfortable addressing it. This article will describe techniques…

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Mastering Virtual Greenscreen with OBS and Microsoft Teams

Kevin Bost — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:38:18 +0000

Crafting the Perfect Stream Through OBS Using Creative Backgrounds As exciting as it is to stream or record your content with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), it can be even better with other participants in the video stream which can be done by using a green screen. In my last blog post, I talked about ways to share your content through OBS using a virtual…

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Advanced Screen Sharing Techniques for Online Presentations

Kevin Bost — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:50:48 +0000

Refine Your Streaming Skills on Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio for the Best Presentation Possible Updated: simplified the process to no longer need FFmpeg Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio is one of the most popular software solutions for streamers. With the significant rise in online presentations and virtual meetings, many have begun using OBS coupled with FFmpeg for…

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Dare to Lead: Leadership Without Armor

Allen — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:57:16 +0000

Are You Causing Your Team Harm by Following Outdated Advice? “Impossible,” you think to yourself after finishing the latest chapter of Dare to Lead, Brene Brown’s lauded leadership book. You trust your friend Meg’s recommendations, and she told you that you needed to read it, and you are. So be it. Glancing out of your…

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Maintaining Impactful Leadership During The COVID-19 Crisis

Mark Michaelis — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:42:49 +0000

How to Lead in Times of Need All industries around the globe are impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This isn’t a new or shocking statement. Some businesses, like Netflix, are thriving. Others, like our favorite local restaurants, aren’t all so lucky. But, how do we lead during the crisis? Those of us fortunate enough to…

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4-Steps to Successful Online Presentation Prep

Kevin Bost — Tue, 12 May 2020 15:40:38 +0000

The New Normal and How to Adjust With so many in-person events being canceled or moved online, there is a growing need for all of us to master the art of online presentations. For many of us, giving an online presentation can be nerve-wracking. At least once a week I present as part of my…

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Today’s Tech Revolution – Thriving in Industry 5.0?

Mark Michaelis — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:36:25 +0000

The World is Changing in Profound and Radical Ways. Where do you sit in the technology curve? *UPDATE – 2021 statistics and Industry 5.0 info added. Also, scroll for full video from my presentation: Thriving in the Cyber-Physical Revolution. A rapid confluence of emerging technologies are poised to amplify and catalyze each other to change…

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We have two Microsoft MVPs!

Joshua — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:21:31 +0000

Recognizing Amazing Individuals We are so proud to announce that Kevin Bost, one of our senior developers, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) as a result of his contribution to Developer Technologies! Also, in recognition of his exceptional technical community leadership, Mark Michaelis has been awarded the MVP Award. This is the 23rd year…

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Agile Demystified: 7 Metrics to Assess Your Agile Practices

Grant Erickson — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:53:28 +0000

Evolution of Agile Development Agile development has evolved to become the norm for software projects. Many organizations are practicing agile with fantastic results. However, sometimes results are less than stellar. Assess your company’s agile practices with this quick checklist. Score 1 point for every answer you agree with. 1. Number of unit tests: Increasing Your…

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Communicating Passion to a New Generation of Students

Mark Michaelis — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:15:30 +0000

Teaching C# at Eastern Washington University Three adjunct professors from IntelliTect continue to teach tomorrow’s engineers industry-standard tooling and languages in the computer science program at Eastern Washington University (EWU). For the past three years, I, along with senior software architects Kevin Bost and Michael Stokesbary, have been teaching computer science at EWU, located just…

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Software Solutions Demystified: Buy or Build with Confidence

Grant Erickson — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:23:31 +0000

Buy or Build Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to make the important ‘buy or build’ decision many times. In retrospect, some commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products have worked out wonderfully. Others have been less than stellar. I use the following matrix to help make my decision. Here are some key points to consider for…

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ASP.NET Core: Mark Michaelis’ 5 Key Reasons to Migrate

Mark Michaelis — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:03:40 +0000

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core Provides an Open-source Platform for Efficiently Building High-performance Websites with Cross-platform Capabilities Mark Michaelis, CEO of IntelliTect, has traveled throughout the US teaching developers how to take their existing code and upgrade it to the efficient ASP.NET Core framework that requires users to install only what they need to host websites. Mark…

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Tech Consultants Demystified

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:11:23 +0000

How Do You Pick the Best Development Team? Developers use languages and technologies that most of the general population have never heard of. What should a company look for when searching for the perfect team to help create their next project? IntelliTect has been called a Microsoft Consulting shop, and although we believe Microsoft has…

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IntelliTect Today – FastTrack Your Success

Joshua — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:01:20 +0000

Need a Fast-Track to Get Your Team up-to-Speed on Microsoft Products? This past September, IntelliTect was selected by Microsoft to participate in the “DevOps FastTrack Airlift 2017” given by the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team. We received updates on the VSTS products as well as details behind Microsoft’s own DevOps journey. Now, we conduct…

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Starting the DevOps Journey

Phil Spokas — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:40:46 +0000

Is Your Team Ready for DevOps? DevOps, or Development and Operations, is the integration of the people, process and tools required to deliver high-quality software in an agile manner from concept all the way to production. In its simplest terms, these practices holds a development team and operations team together so that they understand what…

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How to Form a Hypothesis

IntelliTect — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:54:52 +0000

Hypotheses are *Not* Just for Scientists We subconsciously use hypotheses every day. A hypothesis is simply the identification of a particular assumption and the prediction of the expected outcome. Sound complicated? It isn’t. All types of decisions have implicit assumptions and hypotheses behind them. Wanna get a degree in Art? Why not just go get…

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Validating a Business Idea

IntelliTect — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:49:21 +0000

How do you know what the next steps should be? What should you do? At a high level, the next steps are to validate (or invalidate) all of the assumptions in the list below. You validate assumptions by running experiments that produce data that causes you to either reject or accept your hypotheses. Note that…

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