Rustice staff playing an Escape Game

"You guys are really smart."

As a small (but growing) software company, we have to be picky when it comes to the people that we hire. We need people that can work independently without much direction, that can work quickly and wonderfully with a group, and that know when to…

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Rustici staff enjoying a day of paintball

Sun’s Out, Guns Out

There’s a running joke around the office about sunshine and Ervin’s arms. Basically, if the sun is visible, so are his "guns" (arms). It just so happens that in addition to Ervin’s arms, we had some actual guns out on Monday, too. As our quarterly…

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Who are you people?

Last week we had our first quarterly quell of 2014. It was one of the most interesting weeks I’ve had in a very long time––and that’s saying a lot (I live an eccentric life). Generally when people think of company-wide meetings, their first instinct is…

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Chris Tompkins having fun in a pit full of foam

I’ve never seen anything like this…

Continuing with the fun of Quell Week, we spent yesterday afternoon at Sky High Sports. We bounced around on a massive trampoline, played dodge ball, and got to dive into large pits full of foam (it was just as entertaining to watch people try to…

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Rustici staff playing ping pong

How do you know you’ve hired the right person?

All work and no play, well, that’s just not how we do things. The first thing people usually learn about our company is that we work with e-learning standards like SCORM and the Tin Can API. The second thing that people tend to learn about…

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Fortunately, Chris isn’t very good at betting

For years, every single sales call at Rustici Software was handled by yours truly. We're selling a very technical solution to a difficult problem (SCORM), and my experience as a developer really helped me in those conversations. We've grown over the years, though, and having…

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Rustici Haynesworth Challenge

Mark the Days

It all started with Albert Haynesworth. Albert Haynesworth, you see, is a NFL defensive tackle, a big man who used to play his football at the University of Tennessee and for the Tennessee Titans. A year ago, he left the Titans via free agency to…

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My Favorite Questions

On our website, we invite every visitor to ask us questions. Generally, these questions are about SCORM or something eLearning related. Sometimes, though, they aren't. These questions, sometimes, are among my favorites... When you, our peeps, come up with some great questions, we'll share them...…

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