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We support clients with their internet technology needs

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Digital Circus uses the latest Internet technologies as a weapon to develop web systems, websites, and smartphone apps to support customers' business activities.

Building websites using Drupal

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Digital Circus uses Drupal, an open source CMS (software for efficiently managing content), to build websites.

Drupal is one of the most popular open source CMSs in the world and has been widely adopted by established organizations such as NASA and governments to make their websites.

Drupal’s market share in Japan has been rapidly increasing, and it is now the most popular CMS in Japan due to its rich features, ease of customization, and high security.

Digital Circus has been certified as an official support partner of the open source CMS Drupal, and we are promoting and supporting Drupal in Japan as the company with the strongest track record and technical capabilities.

Global operations, including actively contributing to the Drupal community

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Digital Circus is an international environment where engineers of various nationalities (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Russian, Egyptian, German, etc.) have been involved since its inception.

There are various reasons why we become interested in Japan, such as friends who are Japanese anime fans, but what we all have in common are technological skills and a proactive attitude that makes it so we don’t even notice the language barrier.

Drupal is developed and maintained by communities around the world.

Every year, there are frequent community events related to Drupal, but the largest Drupal conference, “DrupalCON”, is held over a week with thousands of developers and designers / business professionals from all over the world.

Digital Circus actively participates in events not only in Japan but also overseas, contributing to Drupal's community activities.

We employ team communication focused Scrum development

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Digital Circus introduced scrum development, which emphasizes team communication, and holds daily scrums (morning meetings) and sprints (meetings of goals, challenges, and reflections) for each development team that employs scrum (agile development). We aim to be a self-organizing team that is autonomous and emphasizes transparency.      

The company's official language, used at meetings, etc., is Japanese. All members converse in Japanese and work requests are also in Japanese. In an environment like this, non-Japanese members are able to improve their Japanese language skills and learn to communicate smoothly.

A place where everyone can freely exchange ideas as equals

Work with a team of 3 to 10 people. Each team will share their daily progress and issues and work together in cooperation.      

It is a highly flexible environment because it is important to create an environment that makes it easy for members to focus on their work. What if we did it this way？How about this expression？A defining characteristic of Digital Circus is that everyone is considered equal, so even at meetings, everyone can speak freely.      

Furthermore, almost all team members are Drupal engineers.

Digital Circus Development Process

Digital Circus employs a 2-week sprint development timeframe.

• Conduct a planning meeting on the first day of a sprint, and the team decides what tasks to perform in that sprint.
• All tasks are ticketed to Redmine.
• The planned man-hours and actual man-hours are recorded on the ticket so that the burn-down chart can be displayed.
• Review the previous sprint and carry out KPT *1 at the next planned meeting.

*1 Write on sticky notes what went well during that sprint (Keep), what were problem areas (Problem), what you want to try in the next sprint (Try) and share it with the other members.

Digital Circus development environment / flow

• Developers use MacBook Pros (13-inch or 15-inch as desired) and 1-3 external displays.
• GitLab, which is managed in-house, is used for source code management.
• When the developer decides the task to be performed, create a branch for implementation in GitLab, and when implementation is complete, create a merge request (MR, pull request referred to on GitHub) to the development branch. At this time, an automatic test is performed and any errors are displayed on the MR.
• Another developer who saw the MR reviews the source code and merges it if it looks good.
• If the developer or a member of the team does as acceptance test and it is OK, the ticket is given to the QA staff.
• QA reviews the test results and adds tasks to the release plan.
• GitLab + GitLab CI / Jenkins is used as the CI / CD environment.

As a result, the developer code is automatically reflected in the internal verification environment, unit test execution, code formatting, and the production environment.

Evaluations that achieves fairness and objectivity

Every year, a 360-degree evaluation where each member makes an evaluation of all other members and also receives an evaluation from all other members is done. This evaluation process that achieves fairness and objectivity has led to increased motivation.

Diverse career paths, not just engineers

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In addition to program development, the position has many tasks such as customer request interviews, document preparation, setting up CMS settings, quality control (testing), and operational support.     
Even those with no program development experience can learn about technology while performing other tasks. In the future, there will be various career paths not only limited to engineers but also project managers and quality managers.

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Digital Circus has members who like to enjoy life "working hard" and "playing hard".       
We are looking for people who want to enjoy life with such members.

Digital circus members come from various backgrounds and overflowing with individuality.       
With the motto of “freedom”, “open” and “fair”, we value “passion”, “teamwork”, “humor” and “creativity”.      

We want to be a group that uses Internet technology to convey excitement and dreams to people.       
If there is anything that comes to our minds, we say it.

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