Entrance participated in the ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run this past Saturday. We all had a great time, with some employees doing the 5k and some the 10k. Nearly 15,000 people participated, raising $400,000 for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund.



 

Entrance isn’t just a bunch of software consultants that Read More...

Entrance loves that our employees are super smart, fun people. And because our growing company is always in need of good developers, we participated in the Rice Career Fair this past week. While hiring locally is great, we also try to stay involved at Rice because most of our management, and many employees, are alumni.

This morning at Entrance, we got the low-down on making standard chunks of code into modular blocks from Kenny, Josh, Patrick and Brad.

We have seen a lot of software come in the door that doesn’t scale, isn’t able to be modified easily and can’t be easily tested on a large scale. In many cases, this is because in-house or Read More...

I recently gave  a presentation to students at Rice University on the topic of careers in software, with a particular focus on software engineering and software consulting.

In addition to outling the kinds of degrees and training that are required to work in the software business, I explained how software engineering is starting to Read More...

Our most recent SharePoint consultant new hire, Stephanie, shared the story of how she found a job at Entrance with Jim Adcock, a SharePoint Administrator and the writer of a blog called Working it Out.

Stephanie’s big piece of advice in her story was if you are looking for a job, put yourself out there Read More...

Here is our week three update for Movember. Ben is still winning!

We will post two final pictures on the 30th, as we will all be out to celebrate Thanksgiving next Friday.

Entrance adds new certified ScrumMasters to its software project management arsenal


“Instead of focusing on the technical design minutia, scrum shifts our design to Who, What and Why of a solution. More emphasis and value will be placed on the individual team members and our communication with our client. We will be able to respond Read More...

Just a quick update for week 2 of Movember. Some of our men have more noticeable growth than others. We think Ben (second from the bottom) has the best ‘stache so far.

Their wives and girlfriends are cringing as we speak!



 

There is a lot of facial hair going on at Entrance, what with all the guys we have working as consultants (22 at my last count!). This month, in honor of Movember, a few of our awesome men are growing mustaches to raise awareness for prostate cancer. Our president, Nate Richards, will also be making a donation Read More...

At Entrance Software, we hire smart people with strong skills.  But why do the best and the brightest choose us? What makes Entrance different?  We’re a small, young consulting company with a great culture.   In the next few blogs I’ll be breaking down what that means and why you should care.
 Part 2: Culture Matters