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Every wannabe agile organisation tries a different approach to estimating using Story Points, which is the standard way to measure work in Scrum. It is hard to start, and after few sprints, teams tend to go back to estimate in hours, even as estimating in Story Points gives more value for the team in the long run. Additionally, this „Story Points” are confusing for external or internal stakeholders, as non-agile people usually estimate effort through hours. So the first step for confused developers, managers and customers should be linking Story Points and hours in some way, so this measurement is…
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An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. This clutter is an unfortunate by-product of one of our greatest strengths as a species. We are unbridled pattern recognizers and profligate theorizers. Often, our theories are good enough to get us through the day, or at least to an age when we can procreate. But our genius for creative storytelling, combined with our inability to detect…
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Why are you doing what you are doing? I believe in people and their incredible capabilities, sometimes even too much. I thrive when I’m a part of a well-functioning team, and I’m allways trying to build one. Seeing how people moulds reality together is something that delights me on a deep level. How I’m trying to achieve that? I’m trying to enable people in my team to do their job as good as they can. But to do something genuinely spectacular, you need to have more than people – you need to have a well-rounded team. A well-oiled team of…
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Today creating a fully-fledged product is a huge investment. Good developers are expensive thanks to overpaying tech-companies, and reaching out to customers (Facebook Ads costs growth, internet ad blindness) is as expensive as ever. Have in mind that the internet is much more mature than a few years ago and it will be harder to create a 10x better or addressing the unsolved problem is hard. So what to do if you want to start a new internet business? You need to cut the costs and do cheap spray-and-pray strategy until one of your project sticks. Of course, do it…
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If you can’t decide always choose a more excited candidate. You can learn or improve skills, but you can’t learn to be excited about the job. For me, this emotional state is an indicator of a great fit between your offer and a candidate. Humans are emotional beings, and thanks to our irrationality we can withstand all odds, perform in a stressful situation and overcome challenging situations. And nearly always job requires more work than we thought at the start. You need to have the energy to go through obstacles that will be on your way. During my endeavours in…