How we work
Learn more about our work processes and key values. Team members from different disciplines share their expertise, thoughts, and knowledge.
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Deep work: The antidote to distraction we’ve been looking for?
We live in a world full of distractions. These snake their way into our professional lives, holding us back from reaching our full potential. But what can we do to resist the shallow work culture? Cal Newport describes a framework that revolutionizes the way we work. How hard is it to implement, and is it worth it?
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A risky business
When releasing a change or new feature, there is always a risk of something going wrong. People make mistakes, and we at Easy LMS are no exception. How we handle those risks makes all the difference.
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“I have to walk in the clients' shoes”| Easy LMS Talks
In our interview series Easy LMS Talks, we ask colleagues to talk about their jobs. What makes their work fun and challenging? This time it is Daniela's turn to talk about her role as an Implementation Consultant.
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Making mistakes in a non-stressful environment
The motto of Easy LMS is 'keep calm and be proud'. However, does this motto still apply when mistakes are made? Implementation Consultant Daniela shares her own experience of making mistakes at our organization.
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"I am so glad we have embedded the client’s perspective in our work" | Easy LMS Talks
In our interview series, Easy LMS talks, we ask colleagues to talk about their jobs. What makes their work fun and challenging? This time it is Dyann’s turn to talk about user experience research.
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7 common accessibility mistakes (and how to avoid them)
Optimizing the accessibility of your online product is essential, but how do you get started? We share a number of common accessibility mistakes and share useful tips on how to avoid them within your workflow.
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The power of single item flow
We recently ran a lean training exercise at the office: the coin game. The coin game demonstrates the power of single item flow, in a fun and practical way!
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Measuring security the Improvement Kata way
We care a lot about our clients' privacy. That's why we put a lot of time and effort into improving our process. Measuring is one aspect of a good process. Let's dive into how we measure security!
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Our CO2 calculation journey
We’re on a quest to reduce our company's carbon footprint to zero. We asked The Climate Neutral Group to analyze our organization’s behavior; spoiler alert, we’re on the right track! Join our CO2 calculation journey.
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“Creating long-lasting solutions is a very fulfilling part of my job” | Easy LMS Talks
In our interview series, Easy LMS talks, we ask colleagues to talk about their jobs. What makes their work fun and challenging? This time it is Markus’ turn to talk about back-end software engineering.
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“I can do what I love to do” | Easy LMS Talks
In our interview series Easy LMS talks, we ask colleagues to talk about their jobs. What makes their work fun and challenging? This time it is Anouk’s turn to talk about front-end software engineering.
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My experiment to get the most out of my side job
Working on a side job as a student can be difficult. How do you get everything out of your limited hours? In this article, I describe how I optimized my learning path!
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How we put the ‘Easy’ in Easy LMS
How do we make sure you understand our learning management system? What is our take on how to be user-friendly? This article will walk you through our process.
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Play hard during our play week
We like to work hard and focused. But to perform constantly on a high level, you need to unwind from time to time. Even during working hours. We use our playweeks for that.
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Our first steps to make Easy LMS more sustainable
We strive to become a more sustainable company. In fact: we want to beat the Paris Agreement. We know, that’s challenging but doable. We stick to our philosophy that small steps lead to big changes. Are you curious about what we do to achieve our goal? We will show you 🙂.
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Going out of your comfort zone: Working in an environment where you are not mainly using your mother tongue
Working in an international environment without using your native language can be stimulating, but it is not always easy. In this article, you will find some tips to help you make strength in business from your difference.
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How support and development joined forces to help clients better | Easy LMS Talks
We can only create valuable solutions to client issues if our support and development team work together at a high level. Support has client insight, while development brings in technical skills. For the interview series Easy LMS Talks, Caroline talks with Anna, Implementation Consultant, and Joey, Back-End Developer, about the new way of working between support and development. "We don't want to go back."
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We want to be a net-zero impact company
We have defined a sustainability challenge for Easy LMS. We will try to beat the Paris Agreement! We want to become a net-zero impact company in the shortest time possible. Follow our journey and learn with us what it takes to get there.
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A performance review for the bosses? We do that at our annual roast your boss event!
We love learning at Easy LMS. Giving and receiving feedback is an important part of this, so that we can learn from and with each other. The bosses are no exception! That's why we hold a public performance review for our bosses at our annual roast your boss event.
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Client interviews: our tool to understand what you need
Client interviews are a good way to get to know you, your needs, and how you use Easy LMS. That is a lot of pros for us, but what is in it for you?
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Doing your laundry in single item flow, in sequence, on demand
We continuously improve how we run and organize our company by applying the Improvement Kata by Toyota. I wrote several articles to explain the Improvement Kata from a technical perspective already. Did you know you could apply the Improvement Kata to your daily life too? I will show you by telling you how I do the laundry.
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We've had QA, yes. What about automatic QA?
We want to deliver the best LMS possible, and use many techniques to achieve this. Automated tests is a way we improve Easy LMS, and cover here.
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Why Quality Assurance (QA) is as important as building itself
We want you to be able to use a high-quality product. Testing every addition we make is therefore crucial. We show you our six step plan.
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Aim up and compare down
By comparing up to ideal solutions or people, you’re setting yourself up for a lot of frustration. Instead, aim up and compare down to celebrate your achievements.
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From translation to localization: our first steps
Our clients come from all over the world. Having Easy LMS available in a variety of languages is important to us. But how did that all start? And where do we stand today?
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How we use EventStorming to make our processes clear
A lot of knowledge about our processes is stored in the heads of our employees. To learn and improve as a company, we need to get that knowledge out in the open. I’m going to show how EventStorming helped us with that.
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We asked, you answered! What did you learn in 2020?
Read about how Eléonore and Priscila came up with an essay contest for our clients and visitors, the response we got from them, and what we learned from their experiences in 2020.
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Why we are building Easy LMS in a microservice architecture | Development Talks
In the interview series Development Talks, we give you a look behind the scenes of our developer processes. This time we spoke to our former back-end developer, Thomas. He explained to us why we use a microservice structure at Easy LMS. What is it? And how does it contribute to a better for our company and its clients?
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Why improvements and maintenance are as important as new features | Development Talks
In the interview series Development Talks, we give you a look behind the scenes of our development processes. This time Joey, one of our back-end developers, spoke. He explained to us why working on maintenance is as important as building new features. What do we consider as maintenance? And how do we do it?
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The holy grail for translations: single item flow
Since achieving single item flow for our development process, we’ve been working towards achieving the same for our translation process. Searching for the holy grail you might say. Impossible … or not?
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Making mistakes is OK, as long as you learn from them
We don't see making mistakes as a bad thing. It's the other way around. Something that went wrong will show us where we can learn and what we have to improve. Want to know how? Read on.
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Mob programming - 5 developers on a single computer?!
Pre-corona. Five developers in a room are looking at a big screen. Four of them are discussing, the other one is typing. A buzzer sounds. Everyone shifts one place and goes on as if nothing happened. What’s going on here?
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Improving daily work is more important than doing daily work
How to prevent overtime, stress, and burnout by prioritizing the improvement of daily work over doing daily work.
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Beta features let you experience new functionality faster!
We want to understand how real users use Easy LMS and tailor it to their needs. That’s why we release important features in beta. Stop. What does beta mean? This article will explain.
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Who is Knowly?
You've probably noticed an owl hanging out at Easy LMS ... we call him Knowly! But who is Knowly, and where did he come from? Here's a little story about our favorite owl.
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How we made our most read help articles multilingual
Learning a software product happens better and faster in your native language. That’s why we made our Help Center available in more languages than English. But how do you translate hundreds of articles without all the structural work?
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Why we don't have a roadmap
A lot of companies share their roadmap enthusiastically with their clients. Although our clients ask for our roadmap now and again, we do it a bit differently here at Easy LMS.
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How we inform you about new features
When we release a new feature, we want you to benefit from its added value. The sooner the better! Getting you up and running with a feature is so important to us that we have an entire process for writing articles and announcing new features.
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How to speak Improvement Kata
When you walk around our office on a regular working day you can hear (or read on Slack) a lot of these sentences: “We have to do an RCA.” “Do you know the target condition for this process?” “I think we need a new challenge for this process.” I can imagine that you don’t know what we’re talking about. Read on to learn.
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One LMS, multiple perspectives: how we bring them together
The people behind Easy LMS don’t see the system the same way our clients do. Why is that? Does this cause any problems? And what do we do to improve?
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Never underestimate the value of sharing knowledge
Sharing is caring. Not only does this apply to food, cars, and tools, but certainly to knowledge too. A culture of sharing knowledge helps in establishing quality. Learn how we keep everyone up-to-date about our daily work and new trends.
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First impressions matter: what we learned while improving our client onboarding
Effective onboarding is key to giving a good first impression of a product. You don’t get a second chance, so it better be good.
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How we adapted our work life during the Corona crisis
Who would have ever thought that the world would change so much in a few weeks just because of a virus? To execute our daily work, we had to come up with a plan B. Read how we went from working at the office to fully remote in such a short time and still managed to get work done.
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Our 4 mantras for feature requests
Feature requests give us insightful information about what to build, but they can also pose a challenge to our own plan and vision for Easy LMS. Luckily for us, we found a few mantras that help us strike the perfect balance.
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World domination, one language at a time!
Ok, so maybe world domination isn’t our actual goal, but the localization of our product is a really important part of enabling our tool to be as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, all over the globe.
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From idea to kick starter launch: how we started our Help Center
Answering the same questions over and over again. There should be a more efficient way to handle this, while quality isn’t hurt. We came up with an extensive Help Center with over 170 informative articles to get you started. Read how we launched our knowledge base.
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7 ways we’ve made Easy LMS user-friendly
We want to give our clients the best user experience. It takes a lot of steps and mistakes to get there. We share the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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How we maintain the quality of your academy using visual regression testing
Changes in one component can have unwanted effects in others. Visual regression testing enables us to deal with this problem, before it makes its way to our end users.
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Why we have target conditions instead of targets
To meet their targets, employees overlook a lot. Not a desirable situation. Just like being stressed out by all the targets you have to meet. Have you ever thought of using target conditions instead? We use them, and will explain to you why.
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The art of reviewing
Reviewing each other’s work is an important quality control measure. We take time for that. In this article, we reveal our favorite review method and why it is best to take the time rather than rush.
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5 reasons why client feedback is important to us
Client feedback is an important part of growing a business. It guides and informs our decision-making, and influences our product roadmap. Read more reasons why client feedback is so important to us.
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What we do to make Easy LMS accessible
Accessibility and user-friendliness is usually a rare topic of conversation when it comes to software. At Easy LMS it’s not. It is one of our main priorities.
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Team spirit for the win
Work hard, play hard. There are multiple ways to strengthen team spirit. In this article we tell you about all the fun stuff we do.
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Improve every day with Kaizen
It's almost impossible to put improvements for your organization on the agenda and ultimately get these implemented. That is why we started with Kaizen for fast, effective, and immediate results.
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Flow and deep concentration: creating a productive working environment
Flow is a powerful tool to improve your performance. At Easy LMS we stimulate the flow state. Because, well, the price of distraction is bigger than you can imagine.
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How we talk to our clients
Communication is key. We experience that every day. This article explains why we use a light-footed tone in our communication, and why we sometimes need to be firm.
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Bugs happen. How do we fix them?
When we handle bugs, they follow a certain flow. In this in-depth article we tell you every step in the process. From discovery, until notification of a fix.
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Why we don’t do overtime
Overtime is part of the job. At least that's what a lot of employers and employees think. We disagree.
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How we use Scrum
How can you get complex projects off the ground, finish them on time, and stay within budget? Our answer: Scrum.
