During my days in Netguru, I had the pleasure to meet fantastic clients and teams. I spent many hours understanding their ideas, agreeing on application architectures, talking through the long-term development processes.
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Hitting a goal on time and within the budget requires a clever strategy and a battle-tested process. Without them, attaining your goals may be not only stressful but also ineffective, and may result in the product’s failure. Following a structured development process suggested by a software development company with all key roles filled will help you avoid it. A client may see progress faster at first with a full-time employee or a freelance contractor. But over time, the investment in an established process will show its benefits – usually as early as a few weeks into the partnership. How do you reach your goal fast and smart? Read our tips.
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Everything starts with an idea: coming up with an idea of a new product or developing an existing one. And the scenario is always the same. If you want to create something outstanding, you need to hire professionals. Even if you have an in-house dev team, you probably need at least a few more talents to manage the whole project and finally make it work.
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Many product owners, especially in enterprise-level businesses, have at some point considered hiring a development consulting agency. Before making the final decision, they usually take into consideration hiring freelancers or building an in-house dev team. In this article, we would like to demonstrate what benefits working with an agency can bring you. We firmly believe that when you adopt a team approach from the very start of a project, it can enormously boost the project’s future success.
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We love change at Netguru. Nothing is set in stone. You can define your working hours, shape your working space, and create your own career path. We do have some guidelines for each stage of your adventure with project management, but the actual career decisions are entirely up to you. So ask yourself: what makes you tick? And find your place in our team!
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When you’re about to start developing your product and hire a freelance development team, you may not be aware of the unknown or unrealized costs associated with only hiring developers. In this article, we shed some light on the processes and infrastructure required behind the scenes to successfully launch a project. We will also reveal some of the risks related to hiring freelancers in comparison to a coordinated team approach.
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We all complain about the lack of time. We don’t have enough time at work and weekends are always too short. So invest some time, read this article and learn the most crucial skills needed to manage time efficiently and have more time to do the things you love.
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Agile project management is usually associated with adjusting projects to customers requirements and continuous improvement. Agilists value responding to change more than following a plan. That said, Agile also involves planning – especially high-level planning. Initiating a new project is an important and time-consuming stage of the project. This phase of software development is also one of the most misunderstood aspects of project management.
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As a product owner you have a vision for the final product. However, it sometimes turns out that it’s impossible to carry out the development process strictly as you planned. You have to create a new actionable plan together with your development team. In this article we share our lessons learned over the 8 years of working with clients. We will also shed some light on the risks associated with poor communication during this step. Learn how to keep a smooth transition from ideas to outcomes.
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Are you having problems with adding new features to your project easily? Are you unable to quickly make significant changes to the project? Maybe you spent a lot of money and aren’t seeing results from the development team? As a product owner, you might want to rewrite the application from scratch. Take a look at the possible advantages and disadvantages of such a solution and make a wise decision.
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