Team management 27 Oct 2023 · 4 min read The Power of Two Pizzas: Why Jeff Bezos Limits Teams to 5–7 In his book “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon,“ Brad Stone writes about a counterintuitive view that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has: communication is Read more
Team management 26 Nov 2019 · 5 min read Why Your Startup Should Use Google Docs to Collaborate on Documents Documents and collaboration are a huge part of any business, especially a technical startup. In a startup, everything from legal documents to meeting notes and feature descriptions need to be Read more
MVP 24 Nov 2019 · 4 min read Should You Build a Core Team Before Building an MVP? A prospective client of mine recently told me that his biggest struggle as a founder was dealing with procrastination. Procrastination happens when you have a task but it’s scary, Read more
Agile project management 21 Nov 2019 · 4 min read What’s the Optimal Size and Composition of an Agile Team A team must be small to remain agile. The smaller your team, the fewer instances of miscommunication you’ll have. Plus, it’ll be easier for you to resolve issues Read more
Team management 10 Nov 2018 · 4 min read Effective communication with designers As a manager, you might struggle to communicate the vision you have in your head with a designer. It might look like designers come from another planet but they are Read more
Leadership 8 Nov 2018 · 4 min read How do you lead a development team without any technical expertise? The incompetent manager According to Laurence Peter research made in 1969, every employee is promoted until she reaches her level of incompetence. In other words, if someone is good at Read more
Leadership 6 Nov 2018 · 4 min read Managing the risk of indispensable employees Imagine that your airplane is landing and something goes wrong with one of its hydraulic systems — a wing is not moving or landing gear is not operating correctly. It' Read more
Team management 24 Oct 2018 · 4 min read Tips for better communication between designers and developers Creating an outstanding user experience requires an incredible amount of hard work and skills. Moreover, a coordinated effort of the whole team is the only way to deliver the application Read more
Leadership 20 Oct 2018 · 5 min read Dealing with conflict in a development team It’s hard to create a strong and professional team and lead it to success. But it’s even harder to keep everyone in the team from tearing each other Read more
Team management 19 Oct 2018 · 4 min read How to effectively communicate with developers and manage them If you ever worked with a development team or a single developer, the chances are that you’ve probably noticed how hard it may be to get what you want. Read more
Team management 14 Oct 2018 · 4 min read Five tips for managing freelancers Most project teams look different today than they did ten years ago. More and more companies employ freelancers, and most managers would instead hire a freelancer than a temporary employee Read more
Team management 11 Oct 2018 · 4 min read How to manage your team well Your responsibility is to guide the team to success, and that’s not an easy task. Everybody is turning to you for supervision, and you rarely have someone to turn Read more
Team management 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 Read more
Team management
