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Engineering Driven Culture – InRhythm’s Code Lounge

 

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Last week, driven by the feedback from our engineering leadership team, we held InRhythm U’s first-ever Code Lounge, inviting everyone from across the company and a few external guests to learn new skills, brush up on existing ones, or just get help on a personal project.

Code Lounge featured technical “stations” for Angular, React, React Native, Express, Vue, Node.js, Java, QA, UX and Product, each led by an InRhythm senior developer instructor. Accompanied by food and drinks on the company, the event provided an easy atmosphere and low-key way for everyone to network and learn a thing or two!

Here are a few key takeaways and learnings from Code Lounge:

  1. To understand what is important to our engineers, we need to be constantly listening to and engaging with our teams. While Vue and Java were not on our list of station offerings originally, in putting the event together we quickly found out that they are in high demand. Luckily, we were able to add both of these to our agenda, thanks to our very talented engineers who were able to lead these discussions.
  2. Collaboration happens when culture is driven from bottom up, not top down. Our engineers and UX/product leads single-handedly drove Code Lounge, with management simply enabling from the background with budget and logistics support. The magic of the night was the true collaboration seen across the stations, individuals coming prepared with best practices in their domains to share without being asked, and amazing learning and teaching happening in tandem across the room.
  3. Angular seemed to be the least popular station at the event, perhaps because a large part of our team is already fluent in Angular or perhaps due to newer technologies featured, such as Vue and React – these were the most popular and buzzed-about tables.
  4. We love learning and development at InRhythm, but admittedly beer on tap, Lombardi’s pizza, pool and music make it even better.

At InRhythm, our goal is to give our people the best opportunities for learning and growth. This goal is something I feel very passionate about as do all our senior leaders across the organization. Code Lounge is just one example of how we keep our company culture and ourselves at the top of our game!  If you want to find out more, visit us at www.inrhythm.com.

 

InRhythm 2016 Year in Review

Happy New Year from InRhythm!

As we look to 2017, we would like to share InRhythm’s most memorable, interesting and fun facts from 2016. Wishing you success in the new year!

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How Financial Services Firms Master Innovation

Financial services firms have to be innovative to attract, retain and keep customers happy. Customers have high expectations – they want the same user experience on the ATM, on their laptop, tablet and mobile device. They don’t care that it’s challenging to create a multi-channel experience across legacy platforms, and they don’t want to wait more than a second or two for their page to load. What’s even more challenging, is that the competition has already figured it out, and soon customers will too. So how are top financial services firms responding?

Legacy Platform Revitalization

One of the biggest (and most common) challenges to overcome is injecting innovation into obsolete systems that were designed to process large batch transactions overnight. The top firms have made the investment in time, budget and resources to upgrade their core platform technology.

Single Page Application & Responsive Web

Mobile banking is on the rise, and applications need to be responsive to account for the nearly 42% of mobile banking users in the US. The benefits of Single Page Applications are abundant: faster load times, fluid user experiences and maintainable code to name a few. Single Page Applications are fast becoming a best practice in the financial world.

Lean UX Design

Design based on research and customer validation to provide cohesive brand experiences across multi-channels is vital for financial institutions to stay ahead of a highly competitive market. The leaders in the market have placed a heavy emphasis on design and robust user experiences.

High Velocity Agile Delivery

Most firms claim to be “Agile shops”, but saying and doing are two different things. Those that have mastered Agile effectively are out-performing competitors and rapidly delivering quality products.

As we close out the year, now is the time for financial institutions to raise their game, and accelerate their efforts to be more disruptive and inject innovation to stay ahead. Making the investment in time, resources and priority in the above 4 things will propel firms to continually out-perform competitors, gain new customers and raise brand loyalty.

Written by Marilyn Daly