We help your team build great software products
The business environment for Independent Software Vendors has never been more challenging. Customers want the latest features, the highest quality and the lowest price. Time to market is critical. You’ve got talented developers, but even they find it hard keeping up with the waves of new technologies. And if they can’t keep up, it’s easy to lose your competitive advantage. Out-of-control support costs can also damage your development effort. Even one major bug in a released product can steal resources from every other project. As margins get smaller and smaller, these details become ever more critical.
InnerWorkings helps you tackle these challenges head-on. Staffing and resource allocation are critical components of a manager’s job. How do you know who your best, most skilled people are? InnerWorkings gives managers unprecedented visibility into developer skills because it’s based on ‘challenges’ that developers solve by writing real code. And because this happens within their familiar Visual Studio environment, your developers are getting hands-on experience that helps them deliver innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations.
Know developer and team capabilities.
Given the opportunity, wouldn’t you like to gain precise, data-driven visibility into the technical skills and knowledge of your development teams? Use this information to make best use of your single most important resource – your developers. With InnerWorkings, you can assign tasks based on known skills and accelerate project development. Read our case study titled Coding Against the Clock, which shows how RCS moved their developers skills to .NET 3.5 within a tight timeframe.
Get up to speed, fast.
Many technologies are available to help ISVs deliver better technical solutions and generate new revenue streams. But developers often don’t have time to get up to speed with the latest techniques on their own. Our coding challenges enable developers to quickly learn needed technologies by writing code and verifying their solutions with our patented code-judging engine. Help your developers move beyond “what worked last time” to provide a better – and less costly – solution by using new technologies.
Know what’s ahead.
InnerWorkings is constantly developing learning content for upcoming technologies. Because of our close relationship with Microsoft, we cover .NET technologies even before they’re released to market. This helps you prepare for these new technologies as early as possible, saving time and money. But don’t just take our word for it – as Soma Somasegar says, “The capabilities of InnerWorkings Developer are a natural complement to the powerful Visual Studio IDE, and will help increase productivity for developers building applications with Visual Studio.”
Enable developers to do more with less.
The InnerWorkings catalog of 600+ hours of .NET learning provides self-paced, hands-on practice and guidance for writing the best code, using Visual Basic or C#. Over time, developers build a personal library of code samples that can be re-used in projects. Your investment in your staff is the lowest cost investment with the highest return. InnerWorkings supports your entire development organization, from experienced programmers to recent hires, with on-demand learning to support the key on-the-job skills they need today.
Use a developer-centered process.
Traditionally, developers don’t like processes imposed from the top down. The Personal Software Process℠ (PSP) is different because it focuses on improving the individual’s performance. PSP-trained developers can work on Team Software Process℠ (TSP) teams, which have a proven track-record in delivering quality projects on time and on budget. To complement our coding challenges, InnerWorkings provides the only ‘hands-on’ online PSP training available outside the classroom.
