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Over the past several years, the Scrum methodology has become one of the primary frameworks of agile project management. And this is not surprising: with Scrum, the management process of your project becomes more flexible and transparent, while risks are lower, and customer satisfaction is prioritized.

Bryan Helmig сo-founded Zapier in late 2011 with good friends Mike and Wade, which was admitted to YCS12 (Y Combinator) batch. Zapier is a web automation app to build Zaps which can automate the most tedious parts of your day to day job. You can connect two or more apps like Slack or Mailchimp or Hubspot or Google to automate repetitive tasks of data sharing between apps without coding or relying on developers to build the integration for you.

In the modern tech world, a podcast is a perfect way to absorb new information while being always on the go. This is especially true for CTOs and tech leads. Their busy lifestyle may not allow them to stay up to date with the latest tech news and trends via traditional media such as written texts. Additionally, CTOs listen to podcasts due to the following reasons:

Recruiting firm Jobvite found 33 percent of surveyed employees quit their jobs within the first 90 days. That’s a lot of turnover, especially considering how costly it is to train new recruits: 45% of HR estimates that over $10,000 a year is wasted on ineffective onboarding, according to BambooHR.

To get to the bottom of the question about how to start offshore development let’s start from the very beginning and clarify what offshore programming is. Offshore software development is the practice of hiring an external company or team to build software outside of the customer’s country. Hiring a team of software developers for your project is a challenging task, especially for businesses from the United States or Western Europe.

Setting up a project with a remote team requires a different set of tools that would allow assigning tasks, sharing files, setting up deadlines, tracking the progress, and organizing data in CRM, ideally all within one platform.

From a customer persona, what do you expect from a service? Whether it is the email you get from the eCommerce platform you shop on regularly or gift hampers you receive from a company for being their loyal customer, one thing is always expected. It’s personalization.

When Mattermost first started, it didn’t make sense for us to have an office; it was just myself and one other person. They were writing code the whole time, and I was on the phone the whole time, and being in the office we ended up interrupting each other. So eventually we started working from our homes and only got together when we needed to catch up.

Hiring a contractor may be easier and faster than in-house hiring, but the onboarding process for a contractor should be as meticulous as for a new employee. Contractors may require as long as one month to become fully engaged because they need to get to know the team and learn the product code.

Celebrated fondly as the land of poets and known widely for its beautiful art galleries, fantastic wine, graffiti, and street art, as well as the sumptuous local cuisine, Chile today is also a fine example of a rapidly growing modernized nation with several thriving industries, one of which is software development. As unexpected as this might sound, the country has been investing significantly in skilling and encouraging young developers, and several factors such as improvement in infrastructure, similar time zones with the US, affordable cost of hiring, etc., prove that it is smart to hire software developers from Chile.

The spark of automation in recent years, backed by economic growth and innovation, significantly impacted the job market and caused, paradoxically, both job loss and talent shortage. Those businesses in need of tech talent faced the biggest challenge to growing fast and efficiently in the industry, considering their lack of software engineers and high competition on the market.

Tristan: Today I’m interviewing Mariia Tintul, who is Business Development Director for Lenal EU, which is a medium-sized software development firm with offices in Tallinn & Kyiv.

Effective collaboration in remote teams requires rethinking the processes and interaction between team members. Traditional in-person work together activities such as brainstorming sessions and meetings using whiteboards, sticky notes, are not available. This is where online software tools come in – they make it easier and faster for everyone on the team to collaborate from their own locations.

Hubstaff is productivity software that streamlines the process of managing remote teams. The app offers time tracking, activity monitoring, online timesheets, payroll, and invoicing capabilities that save time on admin work and get things done efficiently. It integrates with several other apps and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android.

The IT outsourcing industry is humungous, and one of the places that have seen significant growth in this niche is Peru. An example that proves how fast the industry is growing is that the only in 2021, the ICT market was valued at $4.5 billion. It is also predicted to grow in 8.8% by 2026 and worth around $7.02 billion. It is only one metric showing how huge the software development industry is in Peru.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of job openings in the information industry, with 207,000 jobs reported in February 2022, up from 111,000 for the same month last year.

In this article, we compare and contrast two similar yet decidedly different approaches to hiring tech talent: freelancers and dedicated engineers. The former refers to independent contractors, often hired through popular online talent platforms, while the latter involves hiring full-time specialists employed by established and pre-vetted outsourcing software companies.