There should be a correct balance between authority, responsibility, and accountability. Learn how to strike this balance and potential pitfalls. Find out about the Railsware approach to the authority-responsibility-accountability concept. Why can’t you delegate responsibility? Think back to a situation when your business needed expert help, and you hired a …
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Go benefits! No bureaucracy!
IT companies worldwide compete to be the most creative in offering people benefits to win the battle for top talent. The pandemic has played its role in forcing businesses to rethink existing value proposition and adapt them to the new reality – and this affects more than just office-based enterprises. …
Railsware’s Journey to Building Remote Collaboration Workflows
The tech world is making peace with the fact that most teams will continue working remotely throughout the entire 2021. This may be a challenge for companies who have a long tenure of running offices. These days, teams are struggling to figure out how to stay productive and united through …
New Product Development Process by Railsware
The new product development process is a 6-stage blueprint designed to help you take a new product or service from idea to market.
Product Development Life Cycle
Things and ideas are alive; they come to life and die as humans do. Their lives are stories – some are straightforward and ordinary to the point of being boring, some are full of ups and downs, abrupt twists, and breathtaking moments. If we put aside romanticism and look behind …
What Makes Product Development Lean
Constantly decreasing costs, no waste, minimum throughput time, maximum capacity, unlimited flexibility, and high customer satisfaction. Sounds too good to be true? But that’s what lean is all about. What is “lean”? Being able to progressively create “insanely great” products, as Steve Jobs would put it, and especially at the …
[Case Study] How to Turn a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS
Mailtrap is our product and the very popular email testing tool. Check out how we took it from a free prototype to a product with thousands of paying users.
Product Discovery Tools
We look at four excellent methods for running a successful product discovery process. We explain each of them and suggest which to use (and when).
What Makes for a Great Development Culture
It’s far from easy to build a company that breathes growth and development. But we managed to build one, and we’re exploring the key aspects you should be always looking for.
The Top Scrum Alternatives
Scrum and Kanban are two of the many successful approaches to building products. We analyze six of their alternatives and list the pros and cons of each.