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15 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Signs that your technical debt is too big

If you are a startup, then you should know that technical debt is normal. It’s a sign your team is moving fast developing new features. The smaller and younger

14 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Five tips for managing freelancers

Most project teams look different today than they did ten years ago. More and more companies employ freelancers, and most managers would instead hire a freelancer than a temporary employee

12 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to improve development speed in a software project without sacrificing quality

Speed and quality are two conflicting factors of a software development project. The proper development process includes analysis, design, solid implementation and rigorous testing. Because of tight deadlines management is

11 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to manage your team well

Your responsibility is to guide the team to success, and that’s not an easy task. Everybody is turning to you for supervision, and you rarely have someone to turn

10 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to know if you need to hire junior, middle or senior developer?

There are three common developer qualification levels — junior, middle and senior. If you’re new to managing and hiring development teams you might be wondering what makes developer senior or

9 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Manage your scope to meet the deadline in agile project

One of the toughest subjects for every software project is when it’s going to be finished. With traditional waterfall approach plenty of time is spent on analysis and estimation,

8 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

What does Kanban, Scrum, Agile and Waterfall mean

Agile practices are often thought of as silver bullets for wrong estimates, bugs, tasks overdue, global warming and other kinds of problems in software development. It is often compared to

7 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Project management vs product management

Project and product manager roles sound similar, but they are different. It causes a lot of confusion so let’s see what they are responsible for. In short, the product

4 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Technical debt and what to do about it

Technical debt is a set of trade-offs in the code made by developers intentionally on a particular stage of application development. It accumulates when creating new product or feature, where

3 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to organise development process using Kanban board

Software development process that is transparent is essential for every team. Tasks and goals have to be clear both for developers and stakeholders. Everyone should know where the team is

2 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Why do you actually need a QA engineer on your team

Software is buggy. If you ever tried to build anything you’ve probably noticed that. It’s quite common for a feature to be causing problems after being merged into

1 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to set up development process with remote team

We’ve been working remote-first in our team for the last three years. That means that all team members work from locations that they find comfortable while being able to

26 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Agile product development 101

Product development is tough. You have an endless number of features of different value, bug reports, performance issues, code debt and other important things that you have to take care.

25 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

How to choose right technical co-founder

If you have an idea for a tech startup and you don’t have any technical background, then you probably know that you need a technical co-founder. I don’t

24 Sep 2018 · 2 min read

How to quickly mock up UI of your app

Everything starts just from an idea in your head, and the quicker you can get it on paper the better. Mockups are usually much easier to create than written specs,

23 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Make sure that your MVP is really minimal

I made a post earlier this week about why you might not need MVP at all. That post was poorly titled and my intended idea wasn’t very well described.

17 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Why you might not need MVP at all

There are a lot of questions about building the MVP version of the app on this sub, so I decided to write a post based on recent discussions. I see

16 Sep 2018 · 3 min read

Things to learn as a non-technical founder

I've written several posts about hiring and working with developers as a non-technical founder. While I don't think that it makes sense to learn to code