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 role and its value to the project. Why do we need TA explicitly? How does it differ from having a senior engineer in 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 becomes a critical aspect of the delivery and role of a Project Manager evaluates over time. Software project delivery is more and more challenging, as organizations do not only want to quickly adapt to a rapidly changing environment and achieve their goals but also control project cost and timeline. 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: 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 consider implementing a chat within your app, then you’ve got a few options: 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 share 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 was always a challenge. Trello tool helps to organize work and complete task. But how to interpret delivered cards so you will know more about your efficiency? Check this article, where I will go through the idea behind Trello Stats, what kind of challenges had to overcome as a front-end developer and what did I learn.

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 from a series of articles about broadly defined clean code. If you overlooked the first part of the series, which is about comments, then you can find it here. Whereas in this post, you can read about another factor that influences the quality of dev’s code: naming. I will give a widely described lists of todos and not todos in terms of the current topic.

A few thoughts on the switching from Android development to Java web development. There will be rather loose thoughts. I’ve shaped them on the basis of my own experience as a programmer who after 1.5 years abandoned Android to create a backend in Java. I encourage you to read this if you center your thoughts on such a change.

This post is the beginning of a series about good programming practices and so-called “clean code”. It touches a very important element of our code - comments. By reading this post you can verify if you are coding according to the rules of the clean code when it comes to applying comments. You will know when and for what reasons you shouldn’t use comments and when they are accepted or even recommented.

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.

Take a closer look at Expo XDE, an open-source free set of development tools built on top of React Native. It makes your mobile app development faster and less painful, from initiating a project, through working with device API, to publishing and updating the app. It includes a graphical IDE, a CLI, and a huge set of ready to use functional components that cover the most popular mobile scenarios - push notifications, device features such as camera, maps, handling biometrics, and much more. Expo is one of the YCombinator-backed startups (class of summer 2016).