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 with you. In order not to make this post too …

We got acquainted with Mixpanel as a data analytics tool pretty long time ago and integrated it for few our clients. During last months we started active usage of Mixpanel integration on Railsware Labs products, like Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA or Airtable Importer, Mailtrap.io and even at railsware.com website …

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 stories that developers would take to iteration. Writing stories should …

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, usually done standing, so physical inconvenience would force people to be …

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 to the consumer and motivating them to buy it. This article …

Do you know how to make quick, simple pools inside your group without any specific form-based tools? Google or Wufoo survey requires plenty of preparation and distribution time. Slack is good We use Slack messenger as team collaboration tool inside Railsware. Luckily it provides nice ability to add reaction to …

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 have to mention that stories is just one of tools …

Here’re the slides from the most recent presentation made by Yaroslav Lazor at Tash.io Talks in Berlin. The subject is Building up the product: who you need and when. And the video:

In our previous blog post, we’ve reviewed the Inception as a good way to efficiently start every new project. In this second part, we will go over the Inception process and it’s results in more details. Introduction Inception starts with all participants introducing themselves around the table, explaining their role …

Railsware team has been building applications for around 7 years now and over this period of time we’ve delivered dozens of products, engaged with hundreds of potential clients, numerous times revised our internal development processes, experimented, explored new approaches and worked on making the whole process better from A to …