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9 Rules of Highly Successful Project Management

Product Development | By Mihkel Mikkelsaar | March 18, 2021March 18, 2021

Just like football coaches study the game, we have taken a step back and looked at what are the necessary qualities for a stellar project manager to make projects successful. Over the years I have...

Choosing the right tools

Developing a modern FinTech backend: the pros and cons of popular approaches

Fintech | Product Development | By Roman Shandurenko | November 10, 2020November 17, 2020

FinTech is an industry oriented towards developing novel financial applications and solutions to traditional ways of dealing with finance. But building a FinTech application is no easy feat. Today’s financial market is a true digital...

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

10 UX Monsters that designers fear, and how to overcome them.

Product Development | By Maria Vous | October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

Everyone’s afraid of something—even designers. To pay tribute to Halloween this month, I spoke with different app, web, and service designers about things that give them the creeps and asked them what they do to...

Everything you need to know

How to do remote user testing during COVID-19

Product Development | By Maria Vous | October 6, 2020October 9, 2020

Designing great products was hard enough before the Covid-19 crisis hit, with a market oversaturated by competition for limited resources. In a post-pandemic world preparing to face the virus’ second wave, success will be a...

Quality starts here

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

Product Development | By Hanna-Mari Kirs | July 1, 2020August 12, 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...

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, 2020August 12, 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...

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