Author: doronkatz
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Estimating Team Project Velocity in an Agile Project, based on 3 factors
A daunting task of project management, during the project release planning stage, is estimating how long a project would take to complete, which heavily depends on how long it will take developers and testers to complete story points. Working out… Continue reading
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Assess your market size with OMSAT, for Free
The Ornicept Market Size Assessment Tool, or OMSAT for short, is a simply excel spreadsheet, but has the power to provide insight for entrepreneurs and investors to access statistics from the U.S bureau of Labor Statistics, to This tool was graciously… Continue reading
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Value vs Waste: Customer Validation
I have come to learn, working for a startup for the past few months, the importance of Customer Validation. Granted, I have been immersing myself in one of my favourite books, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, but correlating the… Continue reading
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Review of Lean Customer Development
In following suit with the other Lean books in the series, Lean Customer Developmentby Cindy Alvarez gives companies a tangible and pragmatic approach to develop and validate product ideas through iterative and targeted customer development research. The premise of this book lies in… Continue reading
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Review of Powerful Phrases for Successful Interviews | by @TonyBeshara
This book is more about marketing yourself, to land that gig you want. All the other books I’ve reviewed dealt with building your technical proficiency, but is that last step, articulating yourself in the right way to land the job,… Continue reading
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Putting the Internet to work for you with IFTTT
What is IFTTT you ask? Short for if this then that, this is an online service (and mobile if you have android) that allows you to do things/actions based on triggers. That is you can Put the Internet to work for you with… Continue reading
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Review of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery | 2nd Edition
I’ve had the privilege of reviewing the first edition of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery (Early Release*) by Theresa Neil (@mobilepatterns | @oreillymedia) which was released way back in 2011, and with a lot happening in terms of UX design trends in three… Continue reading
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Start modelling your business hypotheses with a Lean Canvas template
Amazing ideas come to you in the most inconvenient of times, despite your mind being a great incubator of ideas, whether you are out and about, or going for a jog in the park, and you don’t want that idea… Continue reading
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Choosing the correct Data Structures
Following on from the article I posted up on Big-O Notation, with Objective-C it’s important to understand what data structures to choose, in order to code with performance in mind. Among many of the lessons we have to learn, premature optimisation is… Continue reading
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Finding your one Metric that Matters (OMTM)
A while back I reviewed a lovely book , Lean Analytics, which was posted by Alistair, called Finding your One Metric That Matters. In paraphrasing the post, the author emphasises whilst t’s not wise to neglect all other analytical measures… Continue reading