Agile project management - Alex Ponomarev

28 Nov 2023 · 4 min read

Use Iterative Prototyping To Fight Scope Creep

The new project has you bursting with eager excitement. Finally, a chance to flex your creative muscles and design iteratively. No more rigid processes limiting the engineering skills you pursue.

21 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team

A team must be small to remain agile. The smaller your team, the fewer instances of miscommunication you’ll have. Plus, it’ll be easier for you to resolve issues

11 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

The Key Difference Between Lean and Agile Strategies

Being confused about the distinction between lean and agile strategies is common; their goals overlap (both aim to eliminate inefficiency and value individuals and their contributions) and so many lean

10 Nov 2019 · 4 min read

Iteration In Product Development: What It Is And How To Do It Effectively

Imagine this: you desire to be a better writer, so you decide to drink in countless articles and books on the craft of writing and editing well. Months fly by

10 Aug 2019 · 4 min read

Developers at War with Uncertainty

There’s a secret every seasoned project manager, product owner, and developer knows. It’s not the coding part that is hard. What’s hard is coming up with a realistic estimate and meeting the deadline.

29 Apr 2019 · 3 min read

Writing Good User Stories

Creating a user story is simple: first, you define a user role, an intended action, and a desired outcome. Then you arrange them in a sentence. And then…that’s it. Your user story is ready.

18 Feb 2019 · 4 min read

How to Estimate an Agile Project With User Stories

Estimating software projects is hard. Early on in the development process, you can’t precisely define the scope of a project. Because inevitably, the scope will change after development kicks off, since the team will have learned more about the project and its context by then.

18 Feb 2019 · 4 min read

Prioritizing User Stories in Agile Projects

Software projects are surrounded by a high level of uncertainty. Even if developers or a consultant gives you a project estimate, until development begins, you won’t know exactly what resources you need to implement the user stories that you’ve planned for your next release.

2 Jan 2019 · 4 min read

Managing the software project day to day

Compared to product management, project management is more tactical. It is as vital as keeping the strategic vision for your product. Even if your development team consists of only one person, you still need to make sure that all requirements are understood and deadlines are met.

1 Jan 2019 · 4 min read

Managing the product roadmap

Once you’ve completed the preparation steps and assembled your team, it’s time to start building your app. However, where do you start? In what order should you build everything that you’ve outlined in the spec document? To figure that out you need to create a roadmap.

19 Dec 2018 · 5 min read

Writing user stories for your app

Software requirements is a very fragile structure and can be easily destroyed by the misuse of a written language. That’s why most of the lengthy requirements specification documents fail miserably.

16 Dec 2018 · 5 min read

How to build your app: Part III

In a couple of previous posts, I wrote about preparing specs and mockups for your product (Part I [https://www.alexponomarev.me/articles/how-to-build-your-app-part-i/]) and hiring designers and developers (Part

9 Dec 2018 · 4 min read

Why estimations are always wrong and how to deal with it

I read a fantastic book by Vasco Duarte [https://twitter.com/duarte_vasco] called NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FWMSBBK/ref=pe_

17 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Bugs in software and what we can do about it

The only way to create software that has fewer bugs is to cut off the functionality and implement an absolute minimum and then spend an enormous amount of time testing

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

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