Over the past 2 years, I've been working as Program Management lead at Metamap.com, helping to set up OKR framework among other things. As challenging as just working with OKRs is, we are a distributed team, spanning from PH / SG to the very west coast and even Hawaii 🙂 The common issues we've found … Continue reading Navigating OKR Challenges: Common Pitfalls and Agile Solutions
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Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
This time it was all about requirements. And we hosted the event at our cozy SkuVault office: Eliciting and preparing requirements from gathering data till development: Oleg Gumerov (PO at SMENA - solutions provider for a big delivery service) shared his experience on how they do it in SMENA.io; Nur Ibragimov (Head Analyst at modulbank) … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)
2 weeks after we had the actual meetup, here's the follow-up post 🙂 Topics this time: Keynote by me on cynefin and how it fits our company projects. Had some discussion & arguing on applicacy of cynefin when it comes to rough development times, migrations, firefighting-based development. Overall, model was introduced, and the fact-and-experience-based arguments … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)
Agile Turkey Summit 2017
Me & my colleague basically decided to attend Agile Greece and Agile Turkey, and then exchange opinions and knowledge gathered there. Big advantage of my trip was Dave Snowden's keynote, whom I wanted to catch after the speech and bore to death with silly questions 🙂 Agile Turkey Itself The conference (1-day conference, october 19th) … Continue reading Agile Turkey Summit 2017
Project Management & Business Analysis Meetup – Ufa
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
Year Retrospective @ SkuVault
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
Notes on Austrian Startup Scene
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
Team Spirit + Exciting Project = Good Product (and vice versa)
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)
A fine line: Journalism, Storytelling and Advocacy
>>German writer and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer once famously said, "silence in the face of evil is evil itself." When there is potential for storytelling or reporting to create a tangible impact, is there an obligation for the journalist or greater media ecosystem relay a call to action to the reader? What is the role of … Continue reading A fine line: Journalism, Storytelling and Advocacy
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO 