Posts by Daniela Field

Posts by Daniela Field

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Calendar Widget Explained

  The calendar widget is one of the most useful widgets when your application requires any type of scheduling, time management or event tracking. Check out this blog post to learn more.
• 3 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Widgets: The UI Building Blocks

  In this post, we’ll delve deeper into the main widgets that help deliver a great user interface and show how easy it is to build with them.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.