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Planning & Requirement Analysis

Understanding the needs of the users and stakeholders, defining the scope of the project, and creating a plan that outlines the project’s goals, timeline, resources, and potential risks is just one area in which we specialize.

Architecture & Design

System Structure & User Interface

Creating a high-level architecture and design for the software system is how we help. This includes defining the structure, components, interactions, and interfaces of the system.

Implementation and Development

We help you write the actual code that makes up the software, based on the design specifications. This involves selecting appropriate programming languages, coding standards, and development practices.

Quality Assurance

Quality – Reliability – Security

Our experienced consultants help you implemented practices and processes that ensure the software’s quality, reliability, security, and compliance meets industry standards.

Testing

Manual & Automated

Our experts help you thoroughly testing the software to identify and fix bugs, ensure it meets the requirements, and functions as intended. Testing includes unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing,

Version Control and Collaboration

We help you use version control systems (e.g., Git) to manage changes to the codebase, enabling collaboration among developers and tracking the history of code modifications so your knowledge base stays in one place.

Documentation

Tutorials — How-To — Technical

We help you create comprehensive documentation that explains the software’s functionality, architecture, APIs, and usage instructions to help you facilitate easier understanding and maintenance of the software.

Deployment

Release – Backup – Migration

We help you deploy new and updated software to production environments, ensuring it can handle real-world usage, performance demands, and scalability requirements. This can also include migration and integration services.

Legacy Modernization

Workflow Automation

Custom Software

About Black Slate

Award Winning Consulting Since 1991

We provide proven co-development and project services that modernize, design, and create new architecture and applications that remove manual tasks, collect and format data for use, and help you determine the right framework or service-based solution for you and your team.
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Decision-Maker Insights

Thought Leadership For Leaders

We’ve taken notes since 1991 and understand the difficulties associated with a software project. On this page you will find articles on how to successfully manage scope creep, how to select and work with an IT consulting firm, and the pillars of software development success.

Blog | From The Field

Technical Insights

Our technical blog is one of the primary reasons our clients hire us to help them update or pivot to an new technology. Proof that your partner is proficient and can communicate is essential when taking on a project that has your name on it and has a lasting impact.

Agile Resource Library

Development That Gets To Work

Everything you need to know about Agile in a working environment, from project roles, how progress is measured, reasons it can struggle to the key traits of a successful agile leader and a complete journey from agile transformation through DevOps to digital transformation.
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Engaging Software Careers With A Team That Collaborates And Likes What It Does!

Black Slate is growing! Let Black Slate help you find your dream job in software development. Our extensive list of software careers focuses on quality. Consider one of our many software careers and come along with us as we look to another record-breaking year of growth, client satisfaction, and exciting projects with great people working by your side.

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EXECUTIVE INSIGHTS

 

Providing Tech Leaders An Outside Perspective On The Business Of IT

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Pillars of Software Development Success

How to Deliver Software On-Time On-Budget On-Feature

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which reviewed 10,640 projects from 200 companies in 30 countries, found that only 2.5 percent of the companies successfully completed 100 percent of their projects. Find out how to avoid this issue.

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Agile Methodology For Executives

A Guide for Executives Managing and Working with Agile Teams

This Black Slate Executive Brief provides an Agile Methodology Overview with related commentary about how scrum complements many agile principles. This paper will also expand your understanding of how to combine Agile and Scrum for the best results.

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Hiring and Working with IT Consulting Firms

What Every CIO Should Know

This Black Slate Executive Brief provides insight into selecting an excellent consulting firm that fits your particular needs and how to leverage that consulting relationship for maximum value.

Agile Developer Blogs from the field!

Black Slate’s preferred method of project delivery is to use an Agile or Scrum process. An Agile software engineering approach often results in more accountability and less waste for problem analysis, solution design, coding, testing, and product release. The continuous feedback loop fostered with the Agile approach illuminates problems earlier than with other methodologies and puts working product out sooner.

.NET Developer Blogs from the field!

Black Slate’s team of senior .NET consulting professionals has deep experience in providing architectural guidance, design and implementation in .NET application development to a variety of government entities and Fortune 500 companies. Our .NET consultants add instant experience to a team that is newer to the technology or augments a senior, experienced team needing additional resources.

Java Developer Blogs from the field!

Black Slate’s Java consulting practice is comprised of senior Java software developers that work with customers on the design, coding, testing and deployment of Java software applications.

Git Blogs from the field!

Black Slate’s Java consulting practice is comprised of senior Java software developers that work with customers on the design, coding, testing and deployment of Java software applications.

Angular Developer Blogs from the field!

Angular Development #9 – Reusable Sub-Forms

Angular’s reactive forms are a great way to quickly build complex and robust forms. However, the design tends to force developers to build large components that encompass the entire form and can make it challenging to re-use or nest sub-forms efficiently. By changing the way you think about sections of forms and leveraging ControlValueAccessor, it can become easy to build customizable form sections that can be shared between many forms in an application. This article heavily relies upon the information in the Control Value Accessor article, so take the time to review that information first.

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Angular Development #8 – Control Value Accessor

Forms are a critical component to most any web application. While most forms can be completed with the standard browser inputs, sometimes a more dynamic or thematic input can make the difference in a user interface. Angular provides the ControlValueAccessor interface to provide developers the tools to seamlessly insert custom built components that can function just as a standard input. But as we will see, the ControlValueAccessor can provide much more than just custom inputs – it can serve as a gateway to better form organization and reusability within an application.

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SQL Server Developer Blogs from the field!

Developer Blogs from the field!

More from the field!

Exploring Entity Framework Core 5

It’s an exciting time to be working with the latest Microsoft .NET technologies. .NET 5, released on November 10th, 2020, combines several smaller, distinct frameworks together into one grandiose framework that includes:

 

    • .NET Framework
    • .NET Core
    • Xamarin
    • ASP.NET Core
    • WinForms
    • WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
    • UWP (Universal Windows Platform)
    • ML.NET (Machine Learning .NET)
    • and Entity Framework (EF) Core.
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Microsoft Is Changing The Release Strategy

Microsoft is changing its release strategy for .NET. After .NET 5.0 is released, they will continue to release a new major version every year in November. Microsoft is also changing its support strategy for .NET with Long Term Support (LTS) versions. Read the article to find out more.

If you are using .NET, speak with Black Slate about complete application development & keeping your team up-to-date! Davin Mickelson & Black Slate are ready to hear from you!

TECH INSIGHTS

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Principles of Good Software Design

Author: Tim Star – Black Slate Consultant

Software design is the most important phase of the software development cycle. Thinking about how to structure code before you start writing it is critical. Changes and updates will inevitably arise. Good software design plans and makes allowances for added features, algorithm changes, and new integrations.

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TECH INSIGHTS

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C# Tutorial: Understanding C# Events

Author: Davin Mickelson – Black Slate Instructor

In this C# event tutorial, I will explain how delegates are the foundation for C# events and show the two primary delegates that Microsoft has given us for creating our own events. I will also show you how to subscribe to your own events and even pass data back to the event handlers.

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