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Top 5 Reasons Why Business Plans Suck
Recently I wrote why business plans are important when you think about starting a company. OK, having a business plan doesn’t automatically mean you have a good business plan. What most often makes a...
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Entrepreneur Interview: Piotr Ukowski
My today guest on Software Project Management is Piotr Ukowski. Piotr is an entrepreneur who started his business with a couple of friends two and a half years ago. In the following interview we...
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Lessons Learned: Startup Failure Part 1
Some time ago we closed down Overto – startup I was involved in. It was a failure – pretty obvious thing since we’ve closed the service. Since we learn much on our mistakes I think a reliable analysis...
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Lessons Learned: Startup Failure Part 2
Last time I shared mistakes we made while working on Overto – startup which was closed down some time ago. Today another part – things we did right and are worth replaying next time I’ll be engaged in...
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Role of Leaders in Startups
Who should be a leader of a startup? An easy question. One of founders. Or even better each of them. They are naturally predestined to leading role. They got the idea. They own the company. They keep...
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12 Steps to Kill a Company
Here’s a quick guide how to kill a software company. 1. Analyze all your projects. Kill ones, which aren’t directly connected with planned income. No R&D. No product development. That’s unjustified...
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Setting Milestones in Start-Up
This is a guest post from Richard Revis who is one-man army standing behind The Plan Is. Which milestones have to be on your start-up plan? I’m a project manager, so when I decided to start a new...
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Big Companies Are The Best… In Maintaining Status Quo
What happens when company grows from 10 to 100 people? Initially there’s a group of highly motivated and hard working people led by one or a couple of visionaries. Everyone knows each other well....
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Fighting with Status Quo
Last time I wrote about status quo and how it becomes protected value within companies. I could tell you countless stories of people being (mentally) hurt by status quo. I could tell barely a few of...
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Project Management in One-Man Project
Recently I came across a very interesting question on Project Management Stack Overflow. The question is how to organize project management in tiny projects, where everything is done by a single...
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Minimal Indispensable Feature Set
Minimal Viable Product (MVP) is such a nice idea. Let’s build something that is as small as possible and at the same time viable, which translates to “provides value and thus make sense to build it.”...
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Why We Fail to Change
I’d love to get a beer each time I hear a story about management imposing a change on teams and facing strong resistance. It would be like an almost unlimited source of that decent beverage. Literally...
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Value for Money
There’s one observation that I pretty much always bring to the table when I discuss the rates for our work at Lunar Logic. The following is true whenever we are buying anything, but when it comes to...
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Cultural Fit versus Cultural Fit
There is a remark on hiring I’ve heard quite a few times recently. It’s about sending a rejection message to a candidate. It goes along the lines: “Just don’t tell them that they’re not a good fit for...
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Autonomy and Transparency: Both or Neither
How does transparency feel? Early in my career, I had an occasion to experience that. I was working in a typical organization where lots of things, payroll included, were secrets. Then the salary list...
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