Project Management
The 4 most popular software development methodologies
Development frameworks are like a GPS route. While the end-goal is to deliver reliable software, the travel plan must work for professionals of many departments. The methodology sets the game-plan: daily rules; work...
Michael Sols
• December 16, 2020
Project Management
Business
Development
10+ Ways to Optimize Your App Development Cost
Everyone who has ever built an application knows this too well: software development can be pretty costly and time consuming. Especially now, in a world affected by the pandemic, finding ways to cut excessive costs is...
Eliza Neumann
• July 29, 2020
Project Management
Business
Has Software Development Adapted in the Age of Masks and Remote Work?
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained governments, industries, and people alike. We’re still trying to assess the damages, analyze strengths and weaknesses, and grasp the situation in its entirety. If anything is clear,...
Peter Curac-Dahl
• June 16, 2020
Project Management
Business
Culture
What You Can Expect From an Account Manager in a Software Development Company
The roles and responsibilities of a developer and project manager are pretty well established and rather straightforward—one builds software, the other ensures that project work goes as planned.
Maja Nowak
• April 23, 2020
Project Management
Development
How to Decode What Developers Say? A Guide for Non-tech Project Managers to Mitigate Risks
As much as we all love our developers, sometimes it’s hard to understand what they really mean when they talk about work.
Błażej Cepil
• April 7, 2020
Project Management
Business
A List Of Useful Tools for Remote Work
At Monterail, we believe in human interaction being prior to tools and processes. This and similar beliefs have always made us feel strongly connected to the Agile Manifesto.
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
• February 17, 2020
Project Management
Business
Leveraging Squads in Agile Software Development — fromAtoB Case Study
Choosing the right software product development framework is one of the most essential (and difficult) tasks that need tackling in the early stages of every project.
Monterail Team
• February 7, 2020
Project Management
Business
Development
Project Management Triangle: Scope vs. Timing vs. Cost—Can You Have It All?
So you want to build an outstanding software product. This means developing the idea, assembling the team and getting it to the kickoff line, and getting some funding to begin with.
Eliza Neumann
• November 7, 2019
Project Management
Business
Culture
Development
How Our Office Design Helps Us Develop Better Software
One of the risks of collaborating with external vendors is working with people from some agency whom you don’t see on a daily basis. This means you don’t really know how they work and how professional they really are....
Joanna Staromiejska
• February 20, 2019
Project Management
Business
Culture
Agile
Best Communication Practices We Use To Keep Our Clients In The Loop
There are many best practices for efficient communication in software development out there. The most hip frameworks for building digital products, Scrum and Kanban, offer some good fundamentals for development teams....
Karolina Gawron
• January 4, 2019
Project Management
Business
Agile
Scoping Your Next Project Phase in Agile Methodology—How To Make A Sprint Planning Effective?
Capacity dictates each team’s day-to-day work. “What can we do? How much can we get done? Will we make it on time?” Reasonable capacity planning (or scoping) is important—without a good scope, your project will run out...
Kamil Nicieja
• August 13, 2018
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
• April 6, 2018
Project Management
Business
Agile
Introduction To Agile Retrospective: Dos and Don'ts For Project Managers
I remember hearing about Agile for the first time. The concept behind it seemed pretty straightforward: sprints, planning sessions, and backlog—it all looked like it could really help us accomplish more in the same...
Olgierd Gawroński
• February 15, 2018
Project Management
Agile
Communication challenges in Agile Project Management
Communication is a key element of the majority of actions undertaken in both private and professional life. If we know how to do it efficiently in business, we are able to build a strong brand and gain the attention of...
Anna Szoszkiewicz
• November 25, 2016