This post is available in Russian. And do it without the CEO flying all the way down to your city 🙂 Let me share a bit of an experience from past 6 months 🙂 We wanted to open a branch in Russia (parent company is in US). Our case is a bit unique: our CEO wasn't able … Continue reading So you want to open US-company subsidiary in Russia
In order for the distrubited teams to work, you got to have a clear flow, a set of general rules, that will fence the process and allow people to collaborate effectively around the globe. If everything is set up correctly, you are able to create amazing products with global professionals, and cover customer support 20+ … Continue reading Communication in distributed teams: Messenger & Rules
So it happened - I managed to gather 2 people for PM & BA meetup (without any PR xD). After visiting Vienna, I desperately wanted a platform to share knowledge or / and mock each other on PM & BA failures. So I created one:  Ufa Project Management & Business Analysis Group Initial meeting consisted of … Continue reading Project Management & Business Analysis Meetup – Ufa
Last year guys from SkuVault offered me an amazing opportunity to help the company manage a growing development team, create organized schedule, establish workflow that reflects the company goals . For those who don't know - SkuVault is a Warehouse Management System (WMS). Like a swiss army knife, SkuVault manages and syncs your inventory across … Continue reading Year Retrospective @ SkuVault
Recently my colleague, Tim, decided to try out Planning Poker, to have better estimations. Planning is essential, and scrum already offers a framework of how to deal with planning. But over the course of my work and experience with scrum techniques, team usually shapes Previous experience showed that daily scrum meetings are merely pointless. Direct communication / skype … Continue reading Tuning up Scrum Approach
I've recently been to Vienna, and visited local Austrian Startups Stammtisch. It went by the number #31, so quite a consistent event going on for more than a year now. The event took place in Sektor5 co-working space (which I have to recommend, because it's a really cool place with only eur 18 per day! … Continue reading Notes on Austrian Startup Scene
It's all about the process I might be a captain obvious here, but supporting a process for an analyst / pm is a more important, than micromanaging tasks amongst developer pool. When a new team member steps in, who's responsibility is to manage development processes, she needs to find how to make business processes inside a … Continue reading Manage process, not people
While working on Storia.me iPhone app, we've eventually came up to the three-week sprints. Empirically, they proved themselves to make product high quality and provided time to get moderate functionality chunks done. Two notes here: First of all - this is does not include time for appStore approval. That's additional week. So a release cycle is … Continue reading Three-week sprints for iOS projects
Product is crafted by people. It is not a sum of collaborative work. It's usually a combination of work, excitement, collaborative ideas, feedback loop inside the team throughout the whole project lifecycle. Passion is right at the heart of every person, and if environment tends to motivate - a person will work hard to achieve a … Continue reading Team Spirit + Exciting Project = Good Product (and vice versa)
When developing Storia.me iPhone app, we had the following circles to deliver to: Developers QA Early adopters General Audience (AppStore) And the following problems to solve: Provide Beta access with faster update pace and immediate critical bug fixing for early adopters (as in microsoft’s inner circle); Make AppStore version as stable as possible; Receive feedback … Continue reading Storia.me App Rollout: Better Feedback Loop, Faster Iterations
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO 