Picture a regular Monday morning, arriving at the office, ready to tackle the day ahead. Then the newspaper we’re subscribed for comes in. It’s Computerworld, a weekly newspaper covering the most important news from the IT industry in the region. A colleague starts browsing through the pages, pauses, lifts his head and shows me screenshots ...
Category: product management
Part 1 can be found here. Now comes the good part. From our experience at Code Runners, we’ve gathered some useful practices that make estimating faster and more accurate. For example, grooming sessions are meant to clarify the objective and set the right direction. You should encourage developers to ask every question possible in order ...
In the same way that the chicken comes before the egg (come on, you know I’m right), an estimation comes before every software development project. In fact, much depends on the estimation and in many cases, it’s a deciding factor whether there’s going to be a project at all. I hope you understand where I’m ...
Yes, we have been following Scrum for some time now. And yes, it’s a viral term that many have come to dislike due to the tremendous hype. Although it has been proven to be successful for many organisations, it’s only a means to an end and definitely not a universal truth for everyone. In fact, ...
Most of the product teams we’ve met have a varying definition of what product management includes in terms of both job description and responsibility. More often than not, entrepreneurs fuse whatever activity doesn’t fit elsewhere (but still is directly product-related) to a mystic “PM” role. The List Such activities include – but are not limited ...
The process known as “market validation” is among the most challenging ones to execute – from a time-resource-impact perspective, but also psychologically. While time and resources vs impact are often discussed, the psychological strain is often neglected. For inexperienced product leads failure is difficult to swallow mainly because of the trust they put in their own ...
Affiliate marketing: promoting your product through synergistic partnerships. Seems lucrative for established companies of all sizes, as it unlocks additional potential in the form of loyal customers they were unable to reach in the first place. But is this a good approach for the early days of a startup? Generally speaking, startups need to figure out three ...
Among the many dilemmas, a startup usually has is proper backlog maintenance – as part of the long-term product management cycle. The two obvious extremes are an empty backlog, where the development team does not know what’s going to happen to the application next month – or an overflowing backlog, where prioritization becomes a nightmare. ...
OK, straight to the point. We decided to start a series of blog posts explaining how the software we build helps our clients. What is the purpose of those shiny web applications? First off is our NPS dashboard developed for companies such as Philips, Heildelbergcement and Abdul Latif Jameel. To get a good understanding of the value ...
When we started our development studio back in 2012 (ah, glorious days!), there were a lot of considerations to make. Our local landscape was – and still is – full of outsourcing companies. Everyone around here seems to code in PHP or Java, but few understand the product application of whatever they are building. As with any fresh ...