Ever wondered if a remote team could supercharge your startup’s productivity and software quality? Here’s 5 ways remote teams do just that: 1. Autonomy → Increases Productivity In a remote team, you simply don’t have an option to micro-manage your team. Why? Because you almost certainly won’t be in the same time zone as every… continue reading
The key to a successful kanban workflow is to continuously improve it. You can improve your process by visualizing metrics to help you action the visible bottlenecks. But how do you define a workflow process to begin with? We’ll go through 7 kanban board examples to inspire you and your team: Product development Sales Marketing Design… continue reading
All SaaS startups all have the same problem – they charge people to use their products but need lots of customers to cover the costs of developing their product. In other words, they need a pricing strategy. It can be the difference between a potential and a recurring customer. Here are a list of best practices to… continue reading
Part 1 and Part 2 of the “What is Agile?” series looked at the history of agile software development and the best practices development teams can implement. Building on assumptions Pretend you’ve just delivered another software project on time and budget. But, there’s one problem: no one is using it. What do you do? You’d… continue reading
The last thing you want your rock star development team to build is a product that collects digital dust. Product management is the difference between building something and building something people actually use. “Good companies manage Engineering. Great companies manage Product.” — Thomas Schranz What is product management? Simply put, product management is the heart of a… continue reading
While you can have 100s of customers signing up for your app every day, those same customers can leave just as fast. Effective customer success helps makes your customers happier, keeps them on for longer and is the foundation for your startup’s hyper growth. But first things first… What is customer success? “a proactive, holistic, and organization-level approach that… continue reading
Product team anti-patterns easily (and repeatedly) slip into the fast paced day-to-day of startups and large organizations. I was fortunate enough to see Bill Scott of PayPal speaking at Silicon Valley Code Camp. He shared a number of amazing lessons learned on how to create great products. Here are six anti-patterns that Bill suggests your product team… continue reading
Part 1 of What is Agile? looked at Agile, Waterfall, Scrum and Kanban. In this article, we’ll look at how teams are able to ship code quickly and with high quality. It’s the question that most teams want to crack – “How do we respond to change in an ‘agile’ way?”. Automation, and lots of it. In a global market,… continue reading
Growth Hacking is About “Growth” “Growth Hacking” has become a buzzword in the startup world. All startups want to grow, because “Everything else… follows from growth“. And Growth hacking helps startups achieve growth. So what’s growth hacking? Growth hacking is the tools, tactics and strategies employed to incrementally grow a startup at scale. It’s not about having one big “eureka” moment. It’s… continue reading
As technology enables teams to be distributed around the world (like ours), communication is becoming increasingly critical. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw We use Slack to communicate between team members, but, more importantly, to be aware of what our team is doing. We’ve connected Slack… continue reading
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