The style and way that we choose to communicate feedback to other people is one of key ingredients of today’s culture of work. We want to know if they are delivering their tasks correctly but from the other side, we are afraid to hear that we didn’t do our job right, or maybe the client isn’t happy. The problem occurs because feedback is often mistaken for personal criticism.
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How many times have you finished a call and felt full of excitement about the plans discussed, only to struggle to remember a few days later what you discussed? Forgetting details is something that everyone does, but there’s a simple solution: get into the habit of writing a short summary of every call, and then adding it to the email thread about the project.
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Let me briefly explain how we plan a weekly iteration with Pivotal Tracker!
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Netguru has clients scattered across the globe, from Singapore to the United States. Our team members also travel a lot, so we're constantly navigating through time zones to communicate with clients and co-workers. This leaves us uniquely situated to help you figure out how to best communicate with team members located in a different time zone.
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Tips & tricks for what we’ve discovered in the last few years about working with teams across many borders.
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I was asked to appear at the 2nd meeting of Aula Polska Poznań. The topic was: “Our client, our master: How to satisfy the client and not go crazy”. I got very excited and agreed almost immediately to the talk, but there was a second thought: this was not the way I feel it; this was not the way we do it at Netguru.
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When you are a startup ‘software’ firm and you plan to roll out new software, ‘The Minimum Viable Product’ (MVP) is something you need to think of.
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AppLift decided to build an internal accounting system that makes billing and invoicing a piece of cake. They wanted a simple, user-friendly solution and contacted us to help them out in the development phase. That's how it all started.
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To CC or not to CC: that is the question. One of the first things I did at Netguru was setting up the default email response to “reply all".
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The complexities of today’s business environment often means that meaningful, workable and scalable growth can’t always be accomplished in-house with a ready and reliable domestic-grown team.
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