Whenever you’re collaborating with people outside your organization, it’s all too easy for miscommunication or presumptions to send a project off course. That’s why a scope of work (or, SOW) is such an important document for any project manager...
In most companies there are significantly more good ideas than there are time, money, and resources to bring those ideas to fruition. From new features and updates to updating processes or making things more efficient, it’s hard to always know...
Nearly a century ago, economists and philosophers speculated that by the year 2000, industrialized nations might have workdays as short as 4 hours a day. And while we’ve come a long way from the 12–14-hour average working day of the first half...
At the core of project management is a simple idea: Know what you want to build, the steps you need to take to get there, and how long each one will take to complete. Sounds easy enough right? But as any seasoned project manager will tell you...
When it comes to hiring engineers, it’s hard to argue with the benefits of going remote. For one, without geographical constraints, you get access to the best and most diverse talent. No central office means a lack of overhead and leaner operating...
One of the hardest things about running any project is dealing with the messy middle. You might have a vision of what things should look like when you’re done, and a good idea of where you are now. But getting there? It’s safe to say even the best...
What happens when a new user signs up for your product? If you’re like most companies, you might send out a few half-hearted emails or give a quick ‘tip tour’ the first time they log in. But other than that, you think the tool speaks for itself...
How did Google grow from 40 to 88,000 employees and $100+ billion in global revenue? Sure, their killer products, ubiquitous search engine, and cloud services played a huge role. But they also had a not-so-secret, secret weapon at their disposal...
“Unless we have a purpose there is no reason why individuals should try to cooperate together at all or why anyone should try to organize them,” wrote legendary management consultant Lyndall F. Urwick in the 1964 issue of Harvard Business Review...
Now more than ever, it’s clear that the defining driver of the online economy is personal data. Giants like Facebook and Google have built billion-dollar businesses on knowing what you want to see and giving advertisers access to that information...