# integrityinspired.com > AI-optimized mirror of integrityinspired.com containing 25 pages totalling 20,713 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://integrityinspired.com/. Last updated: 2026-06-16T04:23:19.480Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [The software you need, built by a team you can trust.](/content/site-root.html): Integrity Inspired Solutions is a custom software development company in Kansas City. We specialize in developing custom software solutions tailored to meet your needs. (332 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [For National Intern Day, we're sharing an insider's look into an internship at Integrity Inspired Solutions](/content/post/the-inside-scoop-on-integrity-s-software-development-internship-program.html): Get an insider's look into a software development internship at Integrity Inspired Solutions. (1,367 words) - [Absolute Sizing](/content/post/what-is-a-story-point/index.html): I've got to be honest with you; sometimes, I think story points were invented as a joke - a way to troll well-meaning agile teams by bogging them down in interminable sprint planning sessions where developers argue passionately for half an hour over whether a story is a "3" or a "5. (1,356 words) - [Fight One Person at a Time](/content/post/agile-lessons-from-martial-arts/index.html): Almost all my life, I've been into martial arts. These experiences as well as experiences from teaching a martial arts class have given me a rich variety of stories and analogies that I pull from when I'm doing consulting, and I thought I'd share a few of them. (1,517 words) - [The Role of the Database in Application Development](/content/post/the-dangers-of-designing-the-database-first/index.html): Here's the core issue: tabular data is woefully inadequate to model the vast majority of business operations. And yet, we seem to think that a database is an ideal place to model these things. (1,746 words) - [I Think It Really Wants Out](/content/post/i-think-it-really-wants-out/index.html): An agile software development effort should cause tensions with how the organization plans their strategy, picks their projects, funds their projects, executes their work, makes decisions, structures their departments - there really is nothing that won't or can't go untouched. (1,051 words) - [Integrity's internship program goes beyond just technical skills.](/content/post/how-were-giving-our-interns-an-edge-for-todays-software-development-job-market.html): When people are hiring “software developers,” they are often thinking “coders.” Coding is definitely key, but technical skills are also the easiest to acquire. Certain characteristics like being a team player, problem solving, and empathy are very important to a good hire, but these can take a long time to cultivate—they aren’t easily taught. So, when we were designing our internship program, we knew we wouldn't have enough time and influence to deeply shape someone's character. (850 words) - [Welcome back to Part II of our [Squirrel Series](/content/blog/categories/squirrel-series/index.html)](/content/post/squirrel-series-part-ii/index.html): Welcome back to Part II of our Squirrel Series...for those with the attention span of a...well a squirrel. Join us for some not so deep thoughts from your friends at Integrity Inspired Solutions. (1,019 words) - [**Myth 1: Kanban is better for support, but Scrum is better for feature development**](/content/post/two-damaging-myths-about-scrum-and-kanban/index.html) (1,051 words) - [Software Development](/content/custom-software-development/index.html): From products for the open market to line-of-business applications for automating your business processes, we can develop your software in the tech stack that's right for your project. (575 words) - [About Us](/content/about/index.html): We are technology professionals with a passion to make software development better for developers, our clients, and the industry. (427 words) - [Are You Cooking Your Pears Correctly? - On Following Agile Recipes](/content/post/are-you-cooking-your-pears-correctly-on-following-agile-recipes.html): Does following a recipe guarantee success? This isn't true in the cooking world, and it isn't true in the agile world, either. (701 words) - [The Value of Work](/content/post/integrity-where-work-and-passion-collide/index.html): True satisfaction in this decade+ of our lives is found through the marriage of what makes us who we are with what needs to be done in our work. Employers solely focused on the work lose out on the super-powers they could unleash from the employee empowered to combine their strengths with the work that needs to be done (568 words) - [The Problem](/content/post/is-scrum-better-than-kanban-for-product-development.html): Some organizations have found that Kanban's method of handling work in progress fits better with their frequently changing, ad hoc work than a planned timebox fits. Ergo, Kanban is a better fit for production support, and Scrum is a better fit for product development. Simple logic, right? Wrong. (1,173 words) - [For us, it comes down to acting out a key principle that makes the Integrity Way work: trust.](/content/post/why-interns-work-on-our-most-important-products/index.html) (606 words) - [The Ex Nihilo Deadline](/content/post/should-all-deadlines-be-killed/index.html): For several years now, I have been on a crusade against deadlines that have no business value, or as I like to call them, "most deadlines."  Usually, the establishment of deadlines (and the failure to meet them) is the result of planning processes that need a significant upgrade.  But are all deadlines bad? (758 words) - [How to Increase Velocity](/content/post/how-to-increase-velocity/index.html): People try all kinds of things to increase a software development team's velocity. Have you tried decreasing variability and increasing predictability? (749 words) - [The Influence of Early 1900s on Modern Work Practices](/content/post/the-new-ddd-dumbing-down-developers/index.html): The problem is not the developers.  The problem is the system.  We have created this.  We have taken intelligent, talented, and skilled individuals and taken away from them everything that requires intelligence, talent, and skill. (1,705 words) - [11,485](/content/post/11485/index.html): My experiences as an intern at Black & Veatch and Integrity Inspired Solutions (1,105 words) - [CASE STUDY:](/content/case-study-more-than-staff-augmentation/index.html): How Integrity Inspired Solutions Transformed Favorite Healthcare Staffing’s In-House Software Into A Powerful SaaS Platform. (556 words) - [Squirrel Series Part I](/content/post/squirrel-series-part-i/index.html): Sometimes you feel like a nut...sometime you...well that did it.  That jingle will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Sorry about that...but I digress which I guess is the reason for this new blogging technique I'm going to explore. (475 words) - [CASE STUDY: STAPLES PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS](/content/our-work/staples-promotional-products/machine-learning/index.html): Leveraging AI To Automate Customer Reccomendations (612 words) - [Unlock Your Automation Advantages](/content/blank/index.html) (235 words) - [WordPress Engineering](/content/wordpress-engineering/index.html): Your website should work as hard as you do. At Integrity, we customize WordPress solutions to fit your unique business needs, transforming your website into a powerful tool that drives real results. (165 words) - [Contact Us](/content/manufacturing-survey/index.html) (14 words) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/content/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives