Insights from people who build products

Keeping everything under control in short-term tasks is relatively easy — everybody goes to a common and known goal. Long-term project management, on the other hand, requires experience and a lot of resources. Will your product still be relevant in half a year? How do you keep your team motivated and stakeholders focus...

Conflicts in agile methodology are seen as inevitable. It’s not about avoiding them (spoiler: it’s impossible) but about resolving them effectively while keeping the atmosphere of trust and comfortable, stress-free working conditions for each team member. Our Scrum Master, Anastasiia Musil, shares valuable insights on...

Jim York, the often-cited guru of Scrum, an agile methodology for managing and completing complex projects, once said, “Scrum is simple. Doing Scrum is hard.” Indeed, The Scrum Guide is easy to grasp. However, many businesses don’t follow the framework strictly. Although implementing the framework might appear a reason...

Even the best ideas and the most generous budgets won’t save a tech project if the software development team is chosen incorrectly. It’s great if you have your own HR and recruiting professionals and can afford an in-house IT department. But let’s be honest — it’s not the case for most businesses out there. Sure, you c...

Nine out of ten startups fail. These gloomy figures contravene the glamorous idea that anyone can succeed with a brilliant idea. In reality, there are many aspects of founding and running a business that many entrepreneurs overlook. The most cited reasons why startups fail include running out of cash, wrong marketing s...

At Rocketech, we follow agile software development practices, prioritizing Scrum for most of our projects. According to the 2022 16th State of Agile Report, Scrum is hands down the top dog when it comes to Agile frameworks. A whopping 87% of the people surveyed follow Scrum at the team level, which is a big jump from a...

In the ever-evolving realm of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product development strategy, success lies not only in the creation of innovative solutions but also in the ability to measure and optimize their impact. Gone are the days of shooting in the dark, hoping for a breakthrough. Today, data-driven insights reign sup...

Until relatively recently, building a new product or launching a new service meant hiring an in-house IT team. It posed many limitations for startups and small businesses as hiring and training your own tech team requires impressive budgets and extra expertise in recruitment and HR. On top of that, you’d need to know a...

One of the biggest project management challenges starts before the main work, namely at the estimation stage. No matter how well a tech vendor does the assessment, the client will most likely have complaints during the development phase because something will not go as planned.  Experienced project managers know it tak...

Imagine you’ve invested a lot of effort and resources into your brainchild. Inevitably, you reach the moment when your project grows and evolves. It’s the time to expand, level up, or change the development team. But amid this crucial phase, you find out that the access to GitHub repositories belongs to that one develo...

The project management triangle combines three elements — scope, cost, and time. No project will be successful without a preliminary estimation of the three constraints that define quality. How do you estimate a software project? Why is estimation important in agile environments? Is it possible to provide a customer wi...

In media, booming startups are often associated with marketing gurus and gods of sales. Overnight success stories make fresh founders hire an expensive marketer from day one, expecting some magic on day two. The reality is, however, more prosaic: there’s a long way from ideation to creating a startup marketing strategy...