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How to approach application design in an efficient way?

How to approach application design in an efficient way?

In the previous article we have mapped the business process for our application. Today I would like to take a moment to talk about design. I believe that we should have this covered before jumping into implementation. First of all design and coding are quite different phases and require different

How to map your startup business process?

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How to map your startup business process?

I strongly believe that every team member must understand the business process, especially an engineer that is going to translate it to the code. Joining greenfield projects differs greatly from joining big companies. There is no documentation, no preexisting code that can be reverse engineered and very vague understanding what

Is my startup solving a problem?

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Is my startup solving a problem?

Every successful startup solves a problem. That could be: * Difficulty in finding a driver that will not overcharge * Difficulty in finding a place to stay for a couple of nights in a foreign city * High rates for currency exchange Sometimes it is easy to forget how the world looked before

How to deliver code efficiently in a startup

How to deliver code efficiently in a startup

During my time working for startups I learned that priorities change way faster than anyone expects. It can take a form of strategic pivot, or a request from sales like “can we close feature A, before B, because it will help us reach sales target for this quarter?”. However being

Decision utils (utilities) Part #2

Decision utils (utilities) Part #2

When I first started my journey with programming the only tool I had was Java. I always liked the back-end engineering, so this felt like a good choice and I used it like hammer. I mean it. The first front end task that I did was with the use of

Decision utils (utilities) Part #1

Decision utils (utilities) Part #1

In the previous article I covered the impact on the decision making on individuals and teams. Initially I have been planning to list a number of decision frameworks, so a reader can pick and choose. However after some research I found that there is a number of articles and videos

Decision making: choice overload

Decision making: choice overload

In previous article we covered context in a startup, including common challenges a founding engineer may face. Today I would like to start a discussion on the decision making, starting with the choice overload. I think it is interesting topic, as it helps to understand the impact the decision making

Startup context

Startup context

In my previous post I tackled the importance of context in general. This time I would like to be more specific about some common denominators that could be seen in startups. Hopeful it will help people joining the startup world, as well as the seasoned ones, understand it better. Money

Staying tuned to the context

I participated once on a project that stemmed from a startup but was in a very advanced state when I joined. I was tasked with advancing some functionality, and when I started it turned out that the previous version was built by a great engineer, with a track record of