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We are proud to announce that DO OK is now a verified Pangea vendor. This means that we have been recognized as part of an elite community of the top 7% software engineering companies and through our Pangea profile, we will further our commitment to transparency towards our current and future partners.

What is near-sourcing? How to start a development project fast without in-house engineers? Why run an on-site discovery workshop? We'll elaborate on these questions further. Today Finland, Sweden, and Norway experience a massive demand for all engineering disciplines. Government figures show that at least 650,000 people work in ICT, rising all the time. As technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, the need for software, hardware, web, and embedded developers grows across the Nordic region. In addition to this equation, some available resources unfortunately only have experience with old obsolete or unfit technologies or tools - with a need for an immediate update, like with, i.e. Python 2, which is officially sunset by Python.org on January 1, 2020. Recruiting new skills is a time-consuming process. Finding the person with adequate competencies and being a match with the team is not easy. From the perspective of the result, it is often more important to bring the new service or product early to the market than have a particular skill in-house.  

Our team is among the few companies that were listed as the most reviewed IT services in all of Estonia

We are excited to announce that DO OK has achieved ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification. This certifies that DO OK services have achieved the highest standards of quality and information security. 

What is React Native? How does it work? How does it compare to native development (like iOS and Android) and other frameworks? We’ll answer these questions for you in this article.

We’ve been building applications for entrepreneurs and organizations for over 10 years. It’s our mission to work with entrepreneurs that want to change the world for the better. To achieve that mission, we need to build long-lasting and mutually valuable relationships with these innovators. To deliver as much value as we can, we’ve made the decision to open an office in one of our key markets, The Netherlands. We want to strengthen our position in key markets by building closer relationships with you, our clients.

Effective software development is an effort of the entire team and sometimes might be a real challenge. But what does this really mean? Successful cooperation with each other and with the client to deliver products efficiently are determined by several factors.    We wrote about the Actify project and relations with the client here and here. It's high time to pass the voice to insiders: Tomek Wąsiński - Tech Lead, Artur Łągiewka - Backend Developer and Tomek Timoszyk - Project Manager share their thoughts and experience about working on wellbeing solutions for the Netherland client.

Why retrospective is so important? How to run an efficient Retrospective with your team? Which retrospective techniques to use? Marta Maciaszek, Senior Project Manager at DO OK, shares her experience.

If you are working in software development, you are most likely familiar with project estimation concepts. In the world of project management, several techniques and methods may be used for project estimation. In this article, we will describe the most common approaches, share our experience from DO OK, and provide tips for your next project estimation.