Posts tagged with "Tips & Tricks"

Effective software development is an effort of the entire team and sometimes might be a real challenge. But what does this really mean? Successful cooperation with each other and with the client to deliver products efficiently are determined by several factors.    We wrote about the Actify project and relations with the client here and here. It's high time to pass the voice to insiders: Tomek Wąsiński - Tech Lead, Artur Łągiewka - Backend Developer and Tomek Timoszyk - Project Manager share their thoughts and experience about working on wellbeing solutions for the Netherland client.

Why retrospective is so important? How to run an efficient Retrospective with your team? Which retrospective techniques to use? Marta Maciaszek, Senior Project Manager at DO OK, shares her experience.

To make proper technology assumptions for your product roadmap, a product owner or business analyst is not enough. The process may get complex right after the first user story you try to debrief. In this article, we share our understanding of a Technical Architect's role and its value to the project. Why do we need TA explicitly? How does it differ from having a senior engineer on your team? What are the touchpoints between business analysts and technical architects?  Continue reading, and you will understand why the collaboration between these two is crucial for successful delivery.

Project management is increasingly crucial in the delivery process, and the role of a Project Manager evolves. Delivering software projects is becoming more challenging. Organizations aim to swiftly adapt to rapidly changing environments and achieve their goals while also controlling project costs and timelines. According to PMI Pulse of the Professions ® 2018, there is a prediction based on the interviews and research that the role of project manager will expand and include also being: a strategic advisor, innovator, communicator, big thinker, and versatile manager.

In any industry, managing projects from start to finish can be challenging, especially projects that involve a team. Fortunately, there are guidelines to structure and streamline the process for better organization and more efficient collaboration. But, they are not enough if you plan to work with Nordic SMEs.

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2020, most of us optimistically looked ahead to what promised to be a prosperous year. And with good reason. The global economy was booming. The stock market reached all-time highs. Then out of nowhere, COVID-19 swooped in and triggered a seemingly overnight economic recession.Many business owners had to close shop. Consumer needs and preferences changed, and entire markets for goods and services dried up. Businesses have been forced to find new ways to offer value to their customers to ensure both their short and long-term survival. But that is easier said than done. To make a successful strategic pivot, an organisation must employ a highly focused and proven method to identify and deliver value to customers.Product discovery workshops are an essential tool in this regard. In this article, we will explore some popular product discovery workshops and conclude by examining a revolutionary and exciting new approach: the value-focused product discovery workshop.

Did you know that only 1% of all startups turn into unicorns? Furthermore, it takes them on average six years to earn this status, and it’s often an arduous and challenging road. The secret behind their success lies in their ability to quickly alleviate their mistakes and ensure that the product they’re working on truly responds to customer needs.   In today’s article, we’re going to cover the seven common risks that startups face on their way to market success and we’ll show you how you can avoid following in their footsteps.

Gone are the days when a good idea and a lot of hard work were enough to create software products. If you want to build a successful startup, you need market validation. Why? Because turning ideas into fully functional digital products requires a lot of time and money. Luckily, attending a discovery workshop for startups can help you decide whether your idea is worth investing in.   In today's article, we're going to discuss why startups should consider attending a discovery workshop. Before we proceed, let’s take a look at what a startup workshop is.

In this article, we provide a concise overview of state management, the Context API, and Flux architecture. Our emphasis is on exploring the pros and cons of React Context and Redux to recap and clarify the best tool for a React app.

If you're considering implementing a chat within your app, you have a few options: you can either develop a solution suited to your needs or choose from a few ready-to-use tools. I was curious about the features available and the most popular solutions on the market. In this article, I'll provide a general overview of the possibilities of several SDK solutions.

Do you know how software teams evaluate clients? What would you answer to some of these tricky questions? Let's break down the thinking that goes behind some of the common topics when clients talk to software companies.

Tracking teams' productivity has always been a challenge. The Trello tool helps organize work and complete tasks efficiently. However, understanding how to interpret the completed cards is crucial for assessing your team's efficiency. In this article, I will delve into the concept behind Trello Stats, discussing the challenges I faced as a front-end developer and sharing the lessons I learned along the way.

Every company has its business life cycle and building long-term relations might have a bit different energy and course. We look for valuable insights from each meeting or event, and a lot of them are worth being shared.

This is the second post in a series of articles about broadly defined clean code. If you missed the first part of the series, which discusses comments, you can find it here. In this post, you can learn about another factor that impacts the quality of a developer's code: naming. I will provide a comprehensive list of dos and don'ts related to the current topic.

Here are a few thoughts on transitioning from Android development to Java web development. These thoughts may be somewhat informal, but they are shaped by my own experience as a programmer who, after 1.5 years, shifted from Android development to creating a backend in Java. I encourage you to read this if you are contemplating such a change in your career path.

This post marks the beginning of a series on good programming practices and the concept of "clean code." It focuses on a crucial aspect of our code - comments. By reading this post, you can assess whether you are adhering to the principles of clean code when it comes to using comments. You will learn when and why you should avoid using comments, as well as when they are appropriate or even recommended.

Some jobs, positions or work fields must deal with a specific problem - they can be very difficult and hard to master, but they rely more on soft skills than hard ones. There are many of these professions, but as an example, let’s take User Experience (UX) Designer. This person improves the interaction between user and product. Specifics of this job lead to one uncomfortable statement.

Building websites or web apps for all major browsers means extra work to do because you must ensure that all of the code you write is supported in each browser.

We live in amazing times. Since we use the internet every day on our mobile phones, tablets, and computers, in every moment we can order food for dinner, buy a book we always wanted to read, book a hotel for our vacations and much more. With all those possibilities comes a great issue: personal data we provide has to be stored securely. It’s not that simple. Almost every day we can find news about data leakages, stolen identity or money fraud.

This article is part 1 in a two-part series about setting up a productive collaboration with a software development company. The art of asking the right questions will help you to increase the success of your project and find the right fit for a software development partner.

If you are a project manager, product owner or a business analyst, and you are about to estimate a digital transformation project in story points for the first time, this blog post is for you.

Conferences like Slush, TechCrunch or WebSummit are great opportunities to get news from the industry, share experience and discuss case studies. One of the essential parts of such events is meeting people and listening to them, but not necessarily selling.

Examine Expo XDE, an open-source and free suite of development tools built on the React Native framework. Expo XDE aims to streamline and simplify the mobile app development process, from project initiation and working with device APIs to app publishing and updates. This comprehensive toolkit includes a graphical integrated development environment (IDE), a command-line interface (CLI), and an extensive library of pre-built functional components that cater to various popular mobile use cases. These components encompass features like push notifications, device functionalities such as the camera and maps, biometric handling, and more. It's worth noting that Expo was incubated as part of Y Combinator's startup accelerator program, specifically the class of summer 2016.