The answer to this question depends on the internal flows of each company. Some companies consider project managers as leaders; some don’t. Let’s check why project managers sometimes do not need leadership skills and when they are necessary.
Read MoreThere is a well-known fact: the earlier a wrong decision is made, the harder it is to fix. The project's discovery phase is one of the first steps in building a backlog and starting the project. So, if you make a mistake at this step, it will be very problematic to fix it in the future. I want to share best practices for avoiding mistakes at this phase to eliminate future issues.
Read MoreNowadays, most companies use one of two ways to work with technical teams: with direct control and without it. I want to explain why the second approach is much better.
Read MoreMany project managers and leads think that the customer should not participate in the development process. However, proper exposure may give more information to the customer and provide valuable feedback to the technical team.
Read MoreEvery big project is built by a big team. The main principle that allows a big group to make a big project is working together as a team, not as many individual workers. One of the essential aspects of teamwork is interpersonal relations, defined mainly by soft skills and communication. This article explains why such professional relations are crucial and how to maintain them.
Read MorePretty much every big and serious company has a degree in computer science as a requirement for software engineers. However, many candidates consider it unnecessary, and they have pretty good arguments. So, let us check when such a degree indeed is required and when it is not.
Read MoreProject management is an organizational process of many external and internal activities to complete specific scope of work called the project. It is a common situation when the project is started in chaos with no understanding of requirements, the scope of work, or who participates in the project. Let us see how to organize that chaos.
Read MoreContinuous context switching kills productivity. Everybody who has ever worked on more than one project knows that. However, there are several cases when such switching may be helpful. Let us check these situations.
Read MoreThere is a common rule in parallel computing — if you want to compute something two times faster, you have to use three times more powerful hardware. However, this rule works differently when applied to software development. Let us see how several teams can work in parallel and what are the best practices.
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