by Maisy Shaw | Sep 27, 2019 | career-management, development, leadership, new-hire
Today I am super excited to welcome Greg Bryant to the team at Inventive. Greg and I have worked together at a little startup (Marketvine) inside of a big company (Dell) where we worked on incubation projects for clients like Target, Sur La Table, and Dell). Greg’s...
by James Shaw | Sep 9, 2019 | career-management, development, leadership
A software engineering project for a consulting company vs a product company can be very different animals. Timelines can be longer in product companies. Less urgency. Less accountability. And probably less chance that you’ll find a Project Manager. Why? When...
by Andrew Siemer | Sep 9, 2019 | career-management, leadership, tech
Do your clients report bugs about your product to you? Does your team fix an issue or push a new feature only to create 10 new issues? Perhaps your product used to be awesome but over time it has started to lack polish or is getting slower to use? Many of these...
by Andrew Siemer | Jun 5, 2019 | career-management, development, leadership, self-improvement
You have funding, you have selected your software development partner and you’re ready to begin development on your product. But instead of giving you a quote for development, your software partner gives you a proposal for a technical discovery. What is this and why...
by James Shaw | Mar 19, 2019 | career-management, leadership, self-improvement, tech
I admit to saying “I can easily fix problems below me, but the hardest problems are above me”. I still believe this, but I think many people misinterpret the statement. If you’re thinking it means “my bosses are the problem”, you’re...
by James Shaw | Mar 12, 2019 | career-management, development, leadership, self-improvement, tech
As I was writing a post on my personal blog, I found myself thinking about a story that I had been confidently telling for years as an example of A Bad Thing, but only recently realized that I’d been completely wrong.I once interviewed at a product company. It...