If you are trying to find the best hiring process for your company, you should read this blogpost. It’ll only take you about 5 minutes and by the end of it, you’ll know how to hack your way into a …

Hi, my name is Anna. I am 25. I am a linguist and today I will tell about my first 3 months in IT company. I’ve learned a lot during those 90 days and would like to share this knowledge …

For months we’ve been providing JIRA Cloud users with the ability to manage their Definitions of Done, ToDo’s, Acceptance Criteria’s inside JIRA issue avoiding complex sub-tasks creation with Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Cloud. Using Enterprise Cloud Edition (paid) they’ve …

In product development, original idea takes lots of transformations on it’s way to the actual implementation (writing code which works and provides desired benefit, that is). One of those is transition from sketches/designs (“sketches” further) done by UX/designer into actual …

Intro While I don’t think that anyone who has ever used any modification of Agile methodology would require definition of a stand-up meeting, its still needed to have some base to start from. Let’s say this is a team meeting, …

Intro Regular Demos – is one of the most powerful instruments of managing your client’s expectations. That’s the way you can formally get acceptance of your team’s work and eliminate frustration risks caused by missing functionality. It’s like “selling” product …

In this article, I am trying to describe my own view on stories in product development and to share some efficient ways of working with them. Let’s start, however, with the question of why there should ever be stories. I …

Working with non-native developers without a project manager, really can that be true? In the past 11 years I have experienced, developed and improved many different structures to improve the output of both nearshore and offshore outsourcing teams, but memories …

It’s common when you have to do a lot, but time/money is not on your side. The first and obvious wish would be to squeeze it all into term/budget you’ve got. But conditions would rather be unfriendly than allow you …

The goal of this post is to define main criteria of design evaluation for non-designers. As for me, there are two main questions in this case and answers to them should help in design evaluation. Ability to answer those questions …