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3 best practices for building FinTech products

Fintech | By Greta Pudan | July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

If you’re thinking about building a FinTech product, you probably know that it’s going to be an uphill battle. The financial services industry is one of the most highly regulated—and competitive—in the world. There are...

Quality starts here

What is an RFP and how do you get one right?

Product Development | By Hanna-Mari Kirs | July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

When corporations or public institutions are preparing large-scale development projects, one common way of finding partners is to put out an RFP, or request for proposal. The idea is to ask potential vendors to submit...

challenges and lessons learned

Building a global hackathon from the ground up – The Global Hack organizers’ notes

Other | By Priit Salumaa | May 20, 2020May 22, 2020

I was looking down the empty toilet paper aisle in my local supermarket at 10am when I received two consecutive phone calls from my friends Calum and Kai (Accelerate Estonia & Garage48), asking if I...

Permission to change

The Key to Building a New Future After the Corona Crisis

Other | Product Development | By Hanna-Mari Kirs | May 5, 2020June 1, 2020

The corona crisis has impacted us all. People, companies, and governments have had to bear the weight of a pandemic that has hit hard and fast, affecting every level of society and every sector of...

Cooking up software development – by recipe or improvisation?

Other | Product Development | By Martin Küngas | April 14, 2020April 14, 2020

As I was standing in the middle of the kitchen thinking about whether I should still create spaghetti bolognese without mincemeat, suddenly it struck me as a project and product manager, that life should not...

Quality counts

How a good ballpark can help estimate software development cost

Product Development | By Indrek Ulst | March 31, 2020June 1, 2020

When clients ask us to estimate software development cost, we always aim to be as realistic as possible, going into detail and covering everything the project will potentially require. This isn’t because we’re looking to...

Universal design matters

The good, the bad, and the ugly: the current state of accessible mobility

Mobility | Product Development | By Maria Vous | March 2, 2020June 1, 2020

In the wake of the climate crisis, changing consumer needs, and technological disruption, the mobility sector has come under increasing pressure to innovate. We’ve seen plenty of changes in response to this, including a new...

Licenses, APIs, and security

Open banking made easy: everything you need to know to get started

Fintech | Product Development | By Hanna-Mari Kirs | February 10, 2020June 1, 2020

If you’re active in the banking services industry, you’ve probably kept a close eye on FinTech in recent years. Its rise has given us game-changing products like affordable money transfer services, borderless bank accounts, and...

Service-based architecture

How product development done right could take Estonia’s e-Residency to the top of the Fortune 500—and pay for pensions, too.

Product Development | By Priit Salumaa | January 27, 2020June 1, 2020

In recent years, Estonia has opened this transparent digital business environment to citizens from abroad, in what we call the e-Residency program. With an e-Residency, people from any country can apply for a government-issued digital...

Strong partners, strong products

Thinking about outsourcing web development? Here are 4 things to consider.

Product Development | By Harri Olak | January 21, 2020June 1, 2020

Whether you’re an up-and-coming startup or a well-established company, you’ve probably had to think about outsourcing web development before. Though working with a development partner can make sense in many different situations, here are a...

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