James Midkiff, Author at Enterprise Knowledge

Breaking it Down: What is Gamification?

James Midkiff February 7, 2023 . Blog

When I talk about gamification, I often use these three E’s: exciting, engaging, and encouraging. These three concepts explain how gamification, the art of applying game design principles to non-game situations, can support a healthy work environment, improve employee satisfaction, … Continue reading

5 Steps to Enhance Search with a Knowledge Graph

James Midkiff January 24, 2023 . Infographic

As search engines and portals evolve, users have come to expect more advanced features common to popular websites like Google or Amazon. Users expect search engines to understand what they are asking for and give them the ability to easily … Continue reading

Breaking it Down: What is Personalization?

James Midkiff January 13, 2023 . Blog

I consistently hear “personalized” used to describe technical features, and it is not always clear what the term means. The term “personalized” often leads us to ask, How is the feature personalized, i.e. what factors lead to the outcome? At … Continue reading

Breaking it down: What is a Taxonomy?

James Midkiff August 1, 2022 . Blog

A few years ago, I did an activity at a leadership retreat where each person slowly whittled down a list of words to a single word that most represented them. The word that I ended up with was “simplicity,” and … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Review Best Practices (Part 5)

James Midkiff July 14, 2021 . Blog

This blog series has covered multiple facets of development standards, from code quality and documentation to configuring virtual and containerized environments. In the previous blog, we discussed the benefits of code reviews to ensure your organization is delivering high quality, … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Review Benefits (Part 4)

James Midkiff July 7, 2021 . Blog

In this blog series, we have covered the benefits and recommendations for development standards at your organization as well as the code quality and processes that can enable your team to perform at a higher standard. Code reviews are a … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Processes (Part 3)

James Midkiff June 30, 2021 . Blog

As I mentioned earlier in this blog series, there are a huge number of development tools and frameworks available and each seems to have their own benefits and use cases. As part of your development standards, you may select a … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: Code Quality (Part 2)

James Midkiff June 23, 2021 . Blog

As I recently discovered, adding code quality standards to established codebases is a great way to get into tussles with other team members — and it’s for good reason. Retrofitting standards to existing code can cause a significant amount of … Continue reading

Investing in Development Standards: The Benefits (Part 1)

James Midkiff June 16, 2021 . Blog

I recently had the opportunity to kick off two development projects and onboard two new developers to the EK team. As I introduced the two developers to their projects, I quickly earned myself a new nickname, the Code Police, and … Continue reading

Five Steps to Implement Search with a Knowledge Graph

James Midkiff April 19, 2021 . White Paper

Knowledge Graphs and Search are commonly linked together to support search use cases such as: Returning contextual relationships with search results; Displaying relevant topics in a knowledge panel; or Powering an expert finder. These advanced use cases enable an organization … Continue reading

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