Posts by Daniela Field
About Daniela Field
Daniela has 10+ years of experience as a technology professional. She enjoys working with clients, understanding their business needs and offering solutions that move clients towards efficiency, productivity and profitability. She has worked with various Fortune 500 companies as well as privately held organizations. Her previous work was focused on enterprise data search, eDiscovery, document assembly and contract management. Daniela firmly believes that the use of Agile methodologies is the future in application development and enjoys the flexibility and speed with which applications can be developed and deployed using the Mendix Platform.
Posts by Daniela Field
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Low-code, High Reward: Incorporate Low-Code Development into Your Curriculum
See how including low-code development in your curriculum can help boost students’ tech skills and help prepare them for today’s modern workforce.
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What You Can Expect to Learn at the Mendix AMCIS Workshop
Mendix is participating at AMCIS this year and we invite you to join our free professor workshop to experience how integrating a low-code platform into Information Systems curriculum can enhance your students’ learning.
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5 Reasons Why Agile Fails and How to Fix It
While every company needs to customize agile processes to their own unique team, there are a few common mistakes to avoid. This blog lists the top five mistakes made with agile methodology implementation and tips to prevent them.
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How to Rapidly Build Applications Without Coding
Instead of worrying about what kinds of databases to pick, what kind of coding language to build your app in or what kind of UI/UX components to use, learn how to build apps without coding using a low-code platform.
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Best Practices and Tools for Agile Sprint Planning
Agile development requires online tools and solutions to effectively manage projects. Read about the principles implemented in Mendix to help with agile sprint planning.
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Best Practices for Simplifying Agile Requirements Management
One of the challenges with agile development is capturing the requirements. Read this blog for best practices on getting started with and managing agile requirements.
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How to Be an Effective Product Owner in Agile Environments
The product owner is the key person that can make or break the project. Read more to learn how to handle the most common situations that product owners face.
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Top Scrum Master Skills to Learn to Drive Digital Innovation
Learn about the three most important scrum master skills every scrum master should have to help their team digitally innovate in an agile environment.
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How to Improve Agile Team Communication and Trust
Here are five best practices for fostering communication and trust in your agile environment, including the importance of feedback and retrospective meetings.
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Top 3 Favorite Apps
With Mendix you can build all sorts of applications for your enterprise, from customer facing patient management systems to insurance claims, and from agency portals to internal apps for HR, IT or any other internal department. As I have worked with Mendix, I’ve built and seen a lot of great apps.
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Top 3 favorite modules
I’ve written previously about my favorite widgets and explained what they are in this post. My coworkers have written about some great widgets like the Notification widget, and other developers and partners can easily create their own widgets using JavaScript.
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Three cases for creating branch lines
Branch lines are copies of any revision. The main reasons to create branches could be but not limited to the following case scenarios.
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5 mistakes to avoid when modeling your application
I’ll highlight five common modeling mistakes and illustrate how you can avoid similar issues in your own development efforts.
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7 reasons Mendix Engineers have more fun
While it might be obvious to some, here are the top 7 reasons why Mendix developers typically chuckle when comparing their projects to others.
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3 Tips for a Performant User Interface
To build excited for my upcoming webinar, this post shares three tips to ensure your User Interface remains as fast as possible. Make sure you tune in to the webinar for more ideas.
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3 Simple Steps to Building Your Data Model in Mendix
Data models are the foundation of your application. Follow this test case to discover the main components and how they contribute to creating your app.
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3 Ways to Improve the Performance of Your Mendix Apps
Today’s end users have high expectations when it comes to app performance. If your application has longer load times that normal, you need to make a change. Here are three tips to improve Mendix app performance.
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Embrace Agile Requirements Gathering And Best Practices
Are you successfully gathering requirements? Here’s my perspective on agile requirements gathering, including pros and cons associated with traditional and agile practices.
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Mendix vs. Code: See Which Delivered the Best App Fastest
See what happened when I challenged my friend (a hardcore programmer) to a friendly race to see who could build an app faster.
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The Feedback Widget: Bridging The Gap Between Developers And Business Users
See why the feedback widget is so important, learn how to configure it, and find out what role it plays in closing the communication gap between developers and business users.
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Best Practices For Managing Application-Level Security with Mendix
The Mendix App Platform handles technical security. This doesn’t mean that developers don’t have to consider security at all. Application-level authorization and access rights need to be configured in the model by the developer. This blog post gives you a set of best practices to ensure that you do it right from the very start of your project.
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6 Mendix Shortcuts to Create Apps Instantly
The Mendix Business Modeler is filled with shortcuts to make app development quick and easy. In fact, I have started to suspect our R&D department is trying to make the mouse obsolete and empower developers to create apps with just a few keyboard clicks.
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3 Mobile UI Tips for Mendix Developers
This post outlines some quick tips for developing the mobile interface with Mendix. The focus will be on how to make the user interface and experience as user friendly and professional as possible.