Posts by Darya Stepanyan

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Project Management  Business  Development  Agile 

How to Prepare a Product Spec When Outsourcing Software Development
It usually goes like this: you spend long hours with your team on creating a perfect brief for your product. You send it out to a few software companies and receive a set of additional questions from every one of them.
Darya Stepanyan
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Business  Development 

Software Estimation: Determining Cost and Time of Your Product
As a business analyst in a software development company, I know from first-hand experience that estimations are a tricky subject. Just this year we conducted more than a hundred ballparks and around twenty full...
Darya Stepanyan
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Project Management  Business  Agile 

Fixed Price vs. Time&Materials - Which Pricing Method to Choose?
One of the main goals of a Project Manager is to maintain a comfortable environment for developers in order to let them do their job in the best way possible.
Darya Stepanyan

Project Management  Development 

How to Start a Web Development Project with a Remote Team
Starting a project with a new client is a lot like starting a relationship: you went on a few dates and you definitely like each other, but you are still distinct people with a different background and you have to be...
Darya Stepanyan
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Culture  Agile 

50% of 20%: How '20% time' mutated our DNA in just half of that time
If we made a ranking of top corporate buzzwords of the past two decades, "innovation" would likely take the podium; Chief Innovation Officer seats were added to many executive board rooms across the globe, R&D divisions...
Darya Stepanyan
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