IT and Engineering

Designing a database requires some analysis of your data and planning around how you want to structure it. Here’s how to plan your database and start designing it. 

Creating technical documentation doesn’t have to feel like a chore. These best practices can dramatically speed up the process and keep essential information within your team.

Read through our tips on how to choose a database for your application—plus why this choice matters so much.

We're seeing more and more companies take the sociotechnical systems approach—but what does that mean? Learn more about this intersection of technology and human interaction.

Do you work with developers who hate Scrum? Learn how to approach potential issues with Scrum in the right way to bring your projects back on track.

Technical debt can cause performance problems, a decline in quality, or a reduced customer experience. Think carefully about how you take on technical debt and manage it.

Effective change management smooths the transition to the cloud and gives organizations better insight throughout the process. See our tips for better cloud change management.

Releasing software forces companies to make a difficult choice between quality vs. speed. See our software release strategies to get the best of both worlds.

See our tips and tricks for using Lucidchart to release software faster, from planning your release schedule to documenting code.

Verifying your cloud implementation provides you with evidence of your cloud’s accuracy, security, consistency, and performance. Learn how to verify that your cloud implementation was completed correctly.

A software design document can help keep you and your team on track from the start of a project to the last lines of code. Learn everything from the basics to best practices of creating software design documents.

Learn the differences between schematic diagrams and pictorial diagrams to help you determine which type of diagram will be best for your project.