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Drawing of person with hammer by laptop, speech bubble ‘Anyone can code?’—highlighting software development challenges and developer shortage.
Bohumír Zoubek

Software Development in Times of a Developer Shortage – Part III

This is the last part of the series where Profinit’s CEO, Tomas Pavlik, offers recommendations on how to avoid serious mistakes when searching for developers for your team or when shopping for custom software development when there is a serious shortage of qualified software professionals…

Delivery management hierarchy with the text Delivery management is the key.
Bohumír Zoubek

Software Development in Times of a Developer Shortage – Part II

Here is the second segment of the three-part series where Profinit’s CEO, Tomas Pavlik, offers recommendations on how to avoid serious mistakes when searching for developers for your team or when shopping for custom software development when there is a serious shortage of qualified software…

Close-up of a young man with visible tears streaming down his cheeks - higlighting the importance of non-functional requirements in software projects.
Bohumír Zoubek

Don’t cry for me …

Sorry, I don’t have Argentina on my mind. Indeed, we are in the software business, and you’ve probably already guessed that it’s something about that pile of possible disasters. You are right; I want to talk about systems and requirements unimaginatively called non-functional.  When they…

A line graph titled Cone of Uncertainty shows estimate variability narrowing over time, from project initiation to software development completion.
Bohumír Zoubek

Software Development in Times of a Developer Shortage – Part I

This is the first segment of a three-part series where Profinit’s CEO, Tomas Pavlik, offers recommendations on how to avoid serious mistakes when searching for developers for your team or when shopping for custom software development when there is a serious shortage of qualified software…

Aerial view of two tractors harvesting a golden wheat field—illustrates precision of Big Data Harvest.
Bohumír Zoubek

Big Data Harvest

Well, another autumn is here, and our data grow bigger every year (Based on a prediction from the IDC report, the global data volume will grow exponentially from 4.4 zettabytes to 44 zettabytes (44×1021 bytes) between 2013 and 2020). We use it to feed ever-hungry…

A subway train arrives at the 42nd Street station-illustrating 42 thoughts on development of 3A systems.
Bohumír Zoubek

3A Systems– 42 Thoughts

3A systems described in the previous article “3A Systems – Definition“ are data processing systems whose development presents the same problems that need to be addressed and the same decisions that must be made. Getting to know them before getting deep…

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Bohumír Zoubek

Life After Work

Our 500 Profinit people are quite a diverse bunch. Some of us swim in Java waters or stitch .Net fabric; others build and stack data warehouses. We have scholars immersed in data science, and even a few weirdos testing their own mind against an artificial…

Three colorful hot air balloons with checkered patterns float —like an architecture of 3A Systems.
Bohumír Zoubek

3A Systems – Definition

Looking back on the data projects I have come across over the last 20 years, I see that the majority of them had the same architecture – 3A systems.

A flowchart showing the software development cycle—with Agile, CI, CD, and DevOps for Everyone processes spanning multiple stages.
Bohumír Zoubek

DevOps for Everyone?

DevOps, a term suggesting some sort of link between development and operations, has been a hit the last few years. Everyone talks about it, many want it, but, much like the agile approach, there are many views on what it really is. In this text,…

Interface of visual analytical tool ClueMaker, displays a network graph with connected orange and blue nodes.
Bohumír Zoubek

ClueMaker – No More Hidden Secrets

Profinit is primarily known for custom application development, information management and other software services. Nevertheless, using our extensive data expertise, we have quietly developed a tool that has grown into an impressive mature product – ClueMaker. ClueMaker is a visual analytics tool. It displays a…