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Many challenges pop up to the Chief Technology Officers, technological ones, management ones, and strategic ones. As much as a CTO faces challenges, it means that the team is working on new opportunities and bringing new things. But these challenges can bring risks as well.
We have explained this before; engineering managers do not have the power or capacity to deal with everything unless they share their work and duties. CTO has to build robust and resilient strategies in the face of disruptive trends and talent scarcity, but it is almost impossible to do all of this independently.
Finding the perfect team that fits your expectations, outsourcing can be very beneficial. A professional IT outsourcing partner can help every CTO managing all of the risks that a challenge can bring. Not only that, an IT outsourcing partner can help a CTO grow their company engineering capabilities, provide all the necessary tech expertise, and, last but not least, relieve their management stress.
IT outsourcing from Kosovo now constantly is working with CTOs of large enterprises. As Kosovo is growing startups, these teams are creating partner relationships in foreign places.
Outsourcing is a great solution to fulfill the needs of each business owner.
The benefits of outsourcing an IT team:
The development process requires a lot of work and commitment; outsourcing teams from Kosovo might help you with that. Expanding your team with developers that have specific skills and mindset can let you and your business breathe.
Kosovo offers the best tech partners, partners you can count on, trusted, and reliable partners to offer you solutions for your tech needs. This will help you go on with things and experience huge growth in your project.
A lot of companies in Kosovo offer IT solutions for companies abroad.
These companies have built an excellent team with the right skills to execute the client’s needs.
IT outsourcing in Kosovo opens up the opportunity to attract the best talent. These guys are trained and educated by their employers on cybersecurity also.
IT outsourcing companies seem to have effective information security measures in place when it comes to security and data protection, complying with international standards, laws, and regulations.
IT outsourcing teams from Kosovo are delivering several products year by year.
If you are a CTO and face many problems right now, help yourself by choosing an outsource team from Kosovo.
Each company is aware that hiring experienced developers to accomplish your goals, but not every company has the budget to afford software developers, especially for an unknown duration.
But if you want your company to become popular on the market, you need to consider outsourcing as the hero of the case.
Hiring a software company that has an experienced team will only help you and your company increase productivity.
As we mentioned many times before, it costs less if you hire another company and do it by outsourcing. Also, you can agree on the terms and duration of cooperation at different stages and periods.
There are many talented teams from Kosovo that are specialized in IT and are worth a try.
One of the worth mentioning companies is Tenton, which has a team that also works outsource.
Tenton digitizes any idea that comes to your mind. Tenton has managed to build a team that is focused on web, software, and app development. Tenton develops websites through web design, web content, web engineering, e-commerce, etc.
The team conceives, specifies, designs, programming, and tests mobile applications, frameworks, and other software components. Additionally, creating and programming apps for computers, mobile phones, and different electronic devices is imperative for their work.
A team with a beautiful mindset, with an incredibly sophisticated ability of imagination in creating and bringing up to the table new ideas, is the best explanation for the team of Tenton.
This functional connection that gives positive energy inside of Tenton made the company collaborate with other companies, not only in Kosovo but also in foreign countries.
As being one of the most advanced companies in Software Development, Tenton operates with many projects around the world, building and creating marvelous websites and applications.
Tenton has managed to help numerous startups evolving from simple ideas to successful businesses that generate endless employment opportunities throughout the year.
BPO is another strategy used by businesses to lower operating costs and improve efficiencies, cutting their rivals while delivering quality services and products to their clients.
Business Process Outsourcing, known as BPO, uses a third-party to perform specific processes on a company’s behalf.
Third-party providers offer more solutions for businesses to reduce their capital expenditures while optimizing their organizations’ productivity.
The Department of Trade and Industry’s definition of BPO is strongly focused on service-type business appointment to a third party service provider.
BPO has proven to bring a profitable enterprise and to be the fastest-growing industry.
BPO services happen to have the capability to make any organization a competitive member of its market, and this is why the BPO industry is becoming very popular.
In both the demand and supply standpoint, the BPO industry is cost-effective. Many foreign companies were encouraged to explore other locations to lower operating costs, but not devaluing services’ quality. BPO is the solution they found.
BPO brought many job opportunities to skilled and educable workers who were struggling to find a job. This industry helped people on their career paths, making them stay in the motherland instead of seeking employment elsewhere.
If your business needs a skilled team, never be afraid to hire an outsourcing team. As they are focused on only one task, they practice it a lot before taking your project as an actual task. And that practice makes them professionals and hard working.
Once you hire these third-party service providers to manage the relationship and interact with your customers, the experience and support bar will rise as they can handle the pressure to offer the services you need. Providing customer care with excellent interaction and solving problems will change, ensuring that customers will have excellent interaction and a problem solver with the service they provide.
Business Process Outsourcing attracts companies by offering them greater operational flexibility.
BPO gives companies the one thing they can not buy: TIME.
It allows them to reallocate time and resources to core competencies, which results in advantages over competing businesses in its industry.
The benefits companies have from BPO are quick and accurate reporting, improved productivity, and the ability to reassign their resources.
Each leader tries to work as much as it is possible so they can improve employee productivity and can help in increasing business efficiency.
It is proven that increasing hours worked at the office does not necessarily mean that it will increase efficiency.
Leaders and managers can save time and still improve employee productivity, which does not require too many working hours.
Leaders and managers see their business as their baby; in this case, they want to be present and have a hand in everything that goes on with it, and they can not wait for it to grow up. But this does not lead to new ideas and new creations.
Therefore it’s best that you delegate some responsibilities to qualified employees, which you trust in performing their tasks well.
Communicating with the teammates on their skills, developing their skills, or finding another hidden skill that can help the team increase efficiency.
Another way that helps increase business efficiency is outsourcing.
Outsourcing associates with sending jobs to other countries, it increases the unemployment rate in the motherland, so it received a bad reputation.
Nowadays, outsourcing has gained popularity, as most modern companies use this strategy to increase business efficiency.
Outsourcing is a way that has been helping a lot of business companies to increase productivity, directly and indirectly.
Outsourcing works out pretty easily while allowing employees to focus on doing what they are best at doing.
This means that the tasks given to them are more meaningful to them than other tasks that have less importance to them or are not best at them.
Other tasks that seem time-consuming are event planning, data entry, public relations, and other administrative management.
The benefits of delegating tasks to outsourcing firms only help companies avoid all the unpleasant, messy situations. These firms are already experts in the tasks you want to delegate to them. They already have done their experiments on the market, and now they have become experts in the field they take in charge to cover.
This is the same thing as we have mentioned before. It is beneficial for leaders and managers to delegate tasks to others, trusted ones, so they can take full responsibility and prove to you that you hired the right person for the needed position.
The same goes for outsourcing when you, as a company, trust another team to take over the responsibility to a specific task, which can increase business efficiency.
Outsourcing can provide time to companies, and time is money. It gives more free time to the company, so the leaders and managers can focus more on achieving business objectives, adding values, and mitigating risks.
These are the benefits that each company must know how to get and embrace them.
To make it even simpler, outsourcing means hiring a third-party vendor so that they can work for you on a contractual basis.
Some of the benefits of outsourcing are as below:
Going through all of this outsourcing methodology allows businesses to increase efficiency. Applying it carefully can make a business run much ahead of the management’s expectations.
One of the most popular typescript-based front-end development frameworks in the market is Angular, developed by Google.
Angular went through many new versions, so it has become one of the most popular frameworks in use today. It was introduced as AngularJS in 2009, and ever since, it has managed to gain remarkable recognition from worldwide developers.
Developers use Angular to design interactive and user-friendly interfaces for their web applications, as it meets all the modern web-application requirements that developers need to engage the end-user.
Tenton, with its professional team from Kosovo, builts dynamic web applications for clients all around the world using Angular.
Angular is an open-source front-end development framework, and it is used to design interactive user-interfaces. Angular was released in 2016 by Google, from the same team that worked on designing AngularJS in 2009.
They worked on relaunching Angular, so they can match the modern development requirements and compete with other popular frameworks like ReactJS.
Many factors can convince us to choose Angular over ReactJS to design a web application’s user interface.
Below you can read the factors:
– Angular is supported by Google, which is the biggest tech-giant so far. It is pretty essential to know that many Google services are designed using.
– Angular itself, which makes us believe in Angular as the company itself is being so optimistic about its framework.
– Angular ensures high security and very quick error elimination as one of the few TypeScript- based frameworks.
– Angular is also capable of restricting cross-site scripting attacks.
– Angular uses HTML to design UI, which leads to quick development.
Kosovo offers many outsourcing teams, and Tenton has professional developers that perfectly complete any task for their clients.
AngularJS outsourcing can help to integrate companies that need to create an application with high quality quickly.
Tenton is trying to be an international level company by providing all our customers the best solutions in web development. We aim to be trustworthy while creating reliable relationships with customers, positive energy from having good relationships inside the team.
We want to create long-term relationships with our clients after proving that we are the best team for the task they need to be done.
Tenton holds on all the responsibilities that each employee gives for his actions, and then remains honest as a company. All the relations with clients are conducted honestly and transparently so we can achieve productivity and efficient cooperation.
React Native started as a small project but ended up being backed by major corporations.
This is a strong reason to believe that every project and idea can someday turn out to be huge, useful and trustful.
React Native began as Facebook’s international hackathon project, and now is backed up by Samsung and Microsoft, while also having an essencial, leading role in bringing next-generation mobile apps to life.
React Native, has become this big, as it can be defined as a Javascript framework for building native mobile applications.
React Native, is a framework also known as ReactJS, not only is helping developers to build high-quality apps with a short development time,but is also offering outstanding performance.
At Tenton, which is located in Kosovo, we feel completed after building a team of experienced React Native developers and project managers who have worked together and implemented useful mobile app solutions for clients across the world. From Kosovo, to the whole world, is a connection that needs to be built over professionalism, success and will.
React Native is a new Android development framework, our team makes sure to always stay on the top of the release chains, testing new builds and technologies and always bringing to the table fresh and innovative ideas to remain on the cutting-edge of ReactJS development.
Our clients can get access to an app which achieves a significant level of polish and performance as compared to other native apps developed with Java, Objective-C, or Swift.
Kosovo might be a small place, but people that represent Kosovo are becoming more and more famous, bringing to life enormous ideas, creative ideas, and last but not least super talented app developers.
Why does Tenton suggests you to choose ReactJS for your Mobile App?
React Native is a form of development framework that has many benefits, and it is different from Javascript or any other tool.
These are some of the benefits:
Tenton is a company that along with many other functions, we are also focused on making a very strong team, which already is, of React Native developers. Our developers are experienced in working in different development scenarios, and can definitely support any of the client requirements, wherever they are.
We are happy to see and witness that our team, the React Native developers, have actually been helping many clients all around the world, helping them grow their business and also making their goals achievable in a short period of time.
Same as React Native that has become huge, and it started as a project, soon we aim to be huge, and we started as a small team. Now we are a big family!
We are living in an area when education is a must, and it has to be completed in the most advanced methods to produce great and excellent ideas in the future from the students.
Technology is doing its magic in this field, and its help is irreplaceable.
As living in a world that depends on technology, we must admit that we have been improving our various skills while being exposed to various tech equipment.
Technology is now everywhere and has become an important key, especially in learning in schools.
As everyone is being engaged with technology, so are being kids. Not only is technology being used for class material, but is being used as an entertainment and being interactive from kids, as letting it become part of their lifestyle.
Nowadays, technology is used by teachers more than ever, considering it as a necessity for the learning environment.
For years now, technology is helping teachers make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.
This is why new generations are now called technological learners, but it is also true that technology keeps children engaged, focused, and helps them learn faster.
Nowadays, technology is becoming a need for students, and so is the idea of integrating technology into the classrooms. It would be a great benefit from which students would easily access educational resources.
It’s a smart move to integrate technology into classrooms because children and students already have access to the Internet daily, why not use it to study?
Technology can make the learning experience way more attractive, because teachers can use so many creative and innovative lesson plans, to make students pay attention in class. It looks more professional and entertaining at the same time.
The future screams out in codes and pixels that in one word, it sums up to All of the Technology, so students must be prepared.
Technology is widely used by many professionals across a wide range of fields and industries. So if students practice the proper use of the Internet and technology, it will help them prepare for their future careers.
Children are used to growing up with the use of technology (nowadays), so when it comes to introducing new ideas by using tools that they already know their use, they feel confident in their ability to learn about the problem and solve it, or its usage.
Technology is one way, or another, simplifies the way teachers teach students, making it easier and more entertaining to create a relationship between them and their students.
Technology makes you believe that there will never be a question coming to you that you won’t find its answer. This way, it boosts our confidence in participating in different conversations, controversy, taking over any decision making, or participate in different events.
You can take the best of technology and use it to create something enormously huge and useful for other people. This way of using technology can make you proud of yourself, and technology is smart, so learn how to use it, don’t waste its power.
People find it hard to accept that time changes as the years go by, and we should all adopt into the present time.
Nowadays, we are surrounded by technology, and it is incredible how many things you can do with the help of it. Technology can teach you numerous things, and it also shows you how to use it.
At the same time, it keeps you busy, and sometimes you find yourself busy while scrolling the news feed.
Social isolation happens after you pay attention to every post on the Internet, but seldom in what is happening around you. Why does this happen?
People will always feel the need to be informed and updated with the news and trends of the Internet. But this doesn’t mean that the need to be informed for everything is a reason to stay connected to technology but disconnected to reality.
It is you and your personality, the one that decides if it is better to stay and have a conversation with people around you, or to chat with an online friend.
It is up to you if you want to enjoy a festival, an event, a birthday, a gathering, by being present with your mind and heart, besides your physical appearance, or if you are there to record every moment of it so that you can in one way or another show off to your friends and followers on social media.
It is a different thing if you want to capture a specific thing because you want to keep memories, you want to promote the happening, but that does not have to keep you busy all the time. That is only your choice.
Technology would be the best thing that happened to humanity if it is used well and smart.
Many people would think that technology is causing social isolation and depression.
People do not like to get in touch with strangers. And some of them that constantly want to meet new people find it hard to start a conversation, so in such cases, smartphones are their protection. While being in a public space, or traveling alone, it is a little bit creepy to want to start a conversation with a stranger just because you want to avoid using your phone. The idea to meet someone new or start a discussion out of nowhere with a stranger, usually, comes naturally, you can not just go around in a public space and pick someone to start a conversation with.
The use of technology has helped people in various forms. Social media connects people, and this is the truth. Technology has made many businesses grow and also helped a lot of people to create healthy relationships. It only depends on how you use the Internet, and technology gives back the awards you are aiming for.
Technology does not drag you or anyone else in depression. People do not like to see others having fun, doing plans, achieving their goals, going into different events, especially if for some reason these occasions are not possible for them at the moment, nor for the near future. These thoughts that keep growing inside of our heads are very toxic and can cause anxiety and depression.
Yet, once again, this is all under our control. You can avoid negative thoughts, and accept the life you are living because everyone struggles with unknown problems that we can not know for. So there is no need to wish for the things that other people have, technology and social media can be better managed just by enjoying the features and updates that are served to us. It does not bring you depression, or neither does it push you to a social isolation situation.
Enjoying life does not mean leaving your smartphone or technology offline and behind. You can be online, and for sure, you can fully enjoy life and remain present at the table.
We must accept that life is changing more and more every day, and what is strange here is that we like the modern world that we are living in, but we feel like smartphones, and their usage keeps us distracted and is taking a lot of our time.
When feeling like so, just put your smartphone down, look around and try to imagine a world without smartphones, the Internet, and technology.
What could appear in that imagination?
A world without technology is a world that holds everyone into a giant balloon, without any connection outside, or further. This giant balloon appears grey, but sometimes we can imagine it being more friendly than it is now, more alive, and more colorful.
The real truth is that we have created all of this; it just needs another perspective of looking at it, to give you the right feeling of what is happening in life. Life is still beautiful, like before; in fact, life is more beautiful than it ever was. No technology in the world can socially isolate you if you do not want to. We admit it, technology can be attractive, but you are the one that chooses if you’re going to stay present with other people or to be socially isolated in technology.
Technology is capable of doing both to people, helping connect people, or isolate them.
Technology most likely can affect adolescents, and it can bring to life the problem of social isolation in high school. But at this period, adolescents are known to be very focused on technology rather than going out and hanging out with family members or friends. Technology fascinates them, but at the same time teaches them a lot of exciting stuff. It is up to them what they want to learn, observe, and create in the future.
We are lucky to be living in this period of advanced technology and proving that technology changed the way of living, and has made it way more comfortable.
Once again, technology and smartphones, or any other smart equipment should not be blamed for the actions that people decide to make when they are being surrounded with other people, or when they make any decision. Technology always has, and I firmly believe, will forever update our way of living, thinking, and being.
What people need in their life is much more positive vibes, and positive vibes bring positive thoughts and energy.
Nothing can take that from you, no technology in the world can consume your energy or time if you do not let it so. Learn to control your time and your life.
Put priorities, and know your ones. Do not blame technology because of your interest in understanding and being informed about what is happening outside.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE (SDLC) is a systematic procedure for building Software that ensures the quality and precision of the Software developed. SDLC procedure aims to produce high-quality Software that meets customer expectations.
SDLC embraces Every phase of the SDLC life cycle has its process and deliverables that feed into the next step. SDLC stands for Software Development Lifecycle.
SDLC Phases
The entire SDLC procedure divided into the following stages:
Phase 1: Requirement collection and analysis:
This stage gives a coherent picture of the scope of the entire project and the anticipated issues, opportunities, and directives that triggered it.
The requirements gathering stage needs teams to get detailed and precise requirements. This helps companies to end the necessary timeline to finalize the work of that structure.
Phase 2: Feasibility study:
Once the requirement analysis phase is finalized, the next step is to define and document software needs. This process conducted with the help of the ‘Software Requirement Specification’ document, also known as the ‘SRS’ document. It contains everything that should be designed and developed during the project life cycle.
Phase 3: Design:
In the third phase, the system and software design documents are prepared as per the requirement specification document. This helps define general system architecture.
This design phase serves as input for the next phase of the model.
There exist two kinds of design documents developed in this phase:
High-Level Design (HLD)
Low-Level Design(LLD)
Phase 4: Coding:
Developers start to build the entire system by writing code using the chosen programming language.
In the coding phase, tasks are divided into units or modules and assigned to the various developers. This remains to be the most extended phase of the Software Development Life Cycle process.
Phase 5: Testing:
Once the Software is finalized and deployed in the testing environment, the testing team starts testing the entire system’s functionality.
During this phase, QA and testing team may find some bugs/defects which they communicate to developers. The development team fixes the bug and sends back to QA for a re-test. This process continues until the Software is bug-free, stable, and working according to that system’s business needs.
Phase 6: Installation/Deployment:
Based on the project manager’s feedback, the final Software is released and checked for deployment issues.
Phase 7: Maintenance:
Once the system is deployed, and customers start using the developed system, the following three activities occur.
– Bug fixing
– Upgrade
– Enhancement
This SDLC phase’s main focus is to ensure that needs continue to be met and that it continues to perform as per the specification mentioned in the first phase.
Popular SDLC models
Waterfall model
The waterfall is a widely accepted SDLC model. In this approach, the whole process of software development is divided into various phases. In this SDLC model, the outcome of one phase acts as the input for the next step.
Incremental Approach
The incremental model is not separate. The requirements are divided into groups at the start of the project. For each group, the SDLC model is followed to develop Software. The SDLC process is repeated, with each release adding more functionality until all requirements are met. Modification to the incremental model allows development cycles to overlap. After that subsequent cycle may begin before the previous cycle is complete.
V-Model
In this type of SDLC model testing and development, the phase is planned in parallel. So, there are verification phases on the side and the validation phase on the other side. V-Model joins by the Coding phase.
Agile Model
In the Agile method, the entire project is divided into small incremental builds.
Spiral Model
The spiral model is a risk-driven process model.
The spiral methodology is a combination of rapid prototyping and concurrency in design and development activities.
Big Bang Model
The big bang model focuses on all types of resources in software development and coding, with little or no planning.
This model works best for small projects with smaller size development team which are working together.
2019 is almost over and hopefully it has been a great year for each and every one of you. Whether it has or it hasn’t, 2020 should be a year where you create your own opportunities, sit back and reflect upon your daily work. Here is a list we have made for developers’ New Year’s resolution.
What’s the point of being fast today if it slows us down tomorrow? For this New Year, we are committed to respecting these 10 developer’s commandments:
We truly believe in continuous learning. We may not need this technology today, but what about tomorrow? It’s all about thinking out of the box and being curious. Here are a few good practices that we’d like to establish in 2020:
Read and watch more about tech: Internet is an amazing source of knowledge, but it needs to be tamed. There are too many things published each day, it’s impossible to read them all, but the more you watch and read, the more creative and inspired you are at work.
Participate in hackathons: Look out for hackathons near you they are great for learning loads of things and building your network as a developer.
Start working on your idea: We all have a dream project in our mind but we somehow end up doing something else or procrastinating. Break all those barriers just do what you want to do and start your dream project. The worst that can happen is that it will not work out, but at least you will know what does not work out and thus focus on things that can really work.
Write more articles: We encourage every single developer to write an article about his/her work. In 2020, we will focus in following the good practice of publishing blog posts on any site or medium that we can, including our own website.
Speak and participate at more public events: It’s never easy to jump ahead and speak in public. However, this practice will help you share your knowledge and experience which as a return will help or inspire someone else. Additionally, it will help you build more trust and confidence about yourself and your abilities.
Adopt better postures: While we get lost in our work, it is important to remember to take care of ourselves. In 2020, we’ll take better care of our spines: poor postures contribute to increasing back and shoulder pain. Some of us already started the trend of using monitor stands, footrests, ergonomic chairs and computer mice.
Take a break sometimes: It’s recommended to take a 5min break every hour. One of our ideas for 2020 is to create a clock program that will remind us to leave our screens when needed. Our team is also starting to explore the various techniques to improve productivity.
Happy New Year from TENTON!
As a software development company, Tenton is always focused in finding the optimal solutions for our clients through meeting their specific requirements while introducing innovative ideas in the process. Simultaneously, we are constantly seeking ways how we can meet innovation and technology with societal needs through the various events and activities.
The week we left behind Tenton together with Zombie Soup decided to embark the journey of helping kids under the autism spectrum by inviting tech companies in Kosovo to come together and support this initiative in various forms through donation and participation. We decided to organize a football tournament ‘Tech for Autsim’ – a cheerful event that brought joy and a friendly competitive spirit between the participating teams. The tournament was supported by 24 tech companies, which added a great value to the initiative. These companies, without which we would not be able to make this event come to life, were: Zombie Soup, Sunny Hill Tech, Telegrafi, Vianova, Gjirafa, Kutia, Frakton, Imbus, Fitonomy, Starlabs, Kartela, Autoshkolla, Codatech, Webtiser, Kode Labs, 3CIS, Inspire11, Competence Center and Strategic Initiatives, Formon, Trigonom, Jusa Print, Deinde and Nerdy Creative. Our goal was to help kids with autism through creating an event that brings together our technology community and puts forward an enjoyable and memorable experience.
The tournament was held on Saturday, November 2nd, from 09:00 until 16:00 where 27 games were played by the 16 participating teams. The past Saturday is therefore an embodiment of how our tech companies do not only excel in the technological setting through the technology they develop, but they also excel in helping our society. Each of the teams had their soul in the game thus giving the tournament the most joyous spirit. We can wholeheartedly say that all the teams were great and we thank each of them for giving out their best. Furthermore, we must recognize and give credits to the Sunny Hill Tech team who won the first place. We shall also acknowledge the efforts that Tenton team put in all the games especially during the finals.
But of course, this was not about who was going to get the first place, instead the focus was on gathering these tech companies for a humanitarian cause and also cherishing an enjoyable experience. As a result, we managed to collect a total of 6,360.00€ which we donated to the “Autism” association on Monday, November 4th. The association together with all the kids expressed their thanks in the most heartwarming way for all of the teams who contributed to this cause.
As Tenton, we also want to leave a big thank you note as heartwarming as the associations’, to all of the teams who joined and played football with us, all of the companies that donated and to all of the people who showed up on Saturday and cheered for the teams. You have made this experience an unforgettable one for us. Thank you!