M63: The growth of Zold rate is direct marketing expenses of Zerocracy
The business model of Zerocracy by definition requires a pretty big amount of venture capital in order to connect many programmers with many customers and make them attractive to each other. In order ...
29 Maalis 20196min
M62: Five steps to migrate from traditional management to microtasking
Microtasking is a great method of managing programmers, but it's very difficult or almost impossible to switch to this new model of work from traditional full-time management. There is a list of five ...
28 Maalis 20199min
M61: What do you do when a client says that everything is wrong and has to be done from scratch?
What do you do as a customer, when you realize the your architect is totally wrong and the architecture is flawed and you have to start from scratch? Most likely, you got aware of that from one of you...
27 Maalis 20199min
M60: Ask a software team for a quote only to check whether they refuse to provide it
How much would it cost to create a Twitter clone? You won't believe how often I hear this or similar questions. There is no such thing as a realistic estimate of a software price if we are talking abo...
26 Maalis 20195min
M59: How to not get frustrated when dealing with freelancers and microtasking?
A team of freelancers working in a microtasking mode is not focused on your business objectives, by definition. They are doing what they are willing to do, randomly covering the entire scope of the pr...
25 Maalis 20197min
M58: Don't expect UI/UX people to work in microtasking mode, they are too creative for that
Very often customers of Zerocracy ask me whether we can find them some good UI/UX designers, who will make sure their application looks great and can work together with programmers. We can't do that b...
22 Maalis 20195min
M57: Tech startups fail mostly because of software development incompetence
Why do startups fail? Conflicts between investors and founders, marketing issues, lack of customer development, not enough money, etc. I believe that all those issues are secondary. The primary cause ...
21 Maalis 20197min
M56: Don't expect your architect to be an expert in your tech stack, that's what developers are for
Very often our customers in Zerocracy expect software architects to be very knowledgeable in the tech stack they are going to use in their projects. Even though it doesn't hurt, but this is not what s...
20 Maalis 20195min
