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8 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

What does Kanban, Scrum, Agile and Waterfall mean

Agile practices are often thought of as silver bullets for wrong estimates, bugs, tasks overdue, global warming and other kinds of problems in software development. It is often compared to

7 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Project management vs product management

Project and product manager roles sound similar, but they are different. It causes a lot of confusion so let’s see what they are responsible for. In short, the product

4 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Technical debt and what to do about it

Technical debt is a set of trade-offs in the code made by developers intentionally on a particular stage of application development. It accumulates when creating new product or feature, where

3 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to organise development process using Kanban board

Software development process that is transparent is essential for every team. Tasks and goals have to be clear both for developers and stakeholders. Everyone should know where the team is

2 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

Why do you actually need a QA engineer on your team

Software is buggy. If you ever tried to build anything you’ve probably noticed that. It’s quite common for a feature to be causing problems after being merged into

1 Oct 2018 · 4 min read

How to set up development process with remote team

We’ve been working remote-first in our team for the last three years. That means that all team members work from locations that they find comfortable while being able to

26 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Agile product development 101

Product development is tough. You have an endless number of features of different value, bug reports, performance issues, code debt and other important things that you have to take care.

25 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

How to choose right technical co-founder

If you have an idea for a tech startup and you don’t have any technical background, then you probably know that you need a technical co-founder. I don’t

24 Sep 2018 · 2 min read

How to quickly mock up UI of your app

Everything starts just from an idea in your head, and the quicker you can get it on paper the better. Mockups are usually much easier to create than written specs,

23 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Make sure that your MVP is really minimal

I made a post earlier this week about why you might not need MVP at all. That post was poorly titled and my intended idea wasn’t very well described.

17 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Why you might not need MVP at all

There are a lot of questions about building the MVP version of the app on this sub, so I decided to write a post based on recent discussions. I see

16 Sep 2018 · 3 min read

Things to learn as a non-technical founder

I've written several posts about hiring and working with developers as a non-technical founder. While I don't think that it makes sense to learn to code

14 Sep 2018 · 5 min read

How to hire a developer as a non-tech founder

I promised to write some tips about hiring a developer, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do now. I will focus on hiring a remote developer because

14 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Common problems non-technical founders typically run into. Part 2

Here's the second part of the post I wrote earlier. The original title was ‘Common problems non-technical founders run into’ but in reality, I think these are the

13 Sep 2018 · 4 min read

Common problems non-technical founders typically run into

I am a developer with about 18 years of experience and worked on a lot of projects and started a few myself so I believe I can see the picture from both sides