It’s better to think of distribution as something essential to the design of your product. If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no matter how good the product. — Peter Thiel, “0 to 1” When B2B…

Estimations in outsourced teams is the series of articles where I’d like to bring more transparency around the approaches as well as challenges associated with assessment of development requirements. Check out two preceding posts that give a general overview of the process as well as factors that impact estimations: Part…

This is article #2 in the series of posts on estimations in outsourced teams based on my experience working in software development with Flatstack. The goal of this series is to create more transparency regarding remote teams and approaches that are employed. In my previous article we reviewed estimation processes…

This article is going to kick off series of posts on estimations in outsourced teams based on my experience working in software development with Flatstack. The goal is to create more transparency regarding remote teams and approaches that are employed. As part of this article, I’d like to review estimation…

On February 4th 2017 Innopolis hosted Productorium — 2nd of the mini-conference sessions on product and service design. It was mainly targeted towards UI/UX designers, however working in management of IT projects I also found it very helpful and informative. Productorium provided a great opportunity to connect with colleagues from…

One of the biggest concerns of any company is ensuring that internal information is kept confidential and only available to specific individuals within and outside of an organisation. In other words by providing security, integrity and availability of their data (among another aspects), companies can sustain competitive advantage regarding their…

In my last post we have discussed 7 ways a manager can increase development team’s productivity. However there is yet another powerful way of motivating the team that wasn’t mentioned — organising hackathons within your company: Two sub-topics will be covered within this article: Why it’s beneficial for companies to…

What actions should a manager take to create an environment where developers can do their job more efficiently? How to increase the value that we are creating for our clients? Those are the questions that frequently strike me as a project manager in a software development company. I started to…