Writing / Topic
Startups
- On the importance of advisory, mentorship, and coachingWhen we started Ministry of Programming in 2015 we didn’t know much about leadership and management.
- Startup Launch — Part 1: Product HuntIf you are an average entrepreneur you might put together a checklist or even a full project plan on how to launch to different marketing channels — A go to market strategy.
- Bias towards actionFaced with a problem of building a new technology product, a team gathers to come up with a solution. The first step is to assemble all key questions and problems to solve.
- Open spaces are not the root of all evilMany people claim open space offices are destructing productivity and company outcomes. Some people go as far as calling it the worst idea in the history of people management.
- Entrepreneurship is wealth creationEntrepreneurship is the best way to move societies and economies forward. It’s the vessel of creation and progress.
- (Some) meetings are uselessThat is one more example of destructive “binary thinking”. Very few things in business and life can be classified as absolutely good or bad.
- The myths of startup recruitmentThere are many myths and unicorns in the startup world, and one of the most pervasive ones is the myth that you can recruit the top 1% in your city if you make a really great effort.
- Why developers hate chaos and expect order in startupsAs a Developer you are programmed to expect order in everything. Every module and function should have a naming convention and nice structure.
- Hidden benefit of an ICO — Validate demand and Build a Community for Your productYou might be following the crypto-craze and considering doing an ICO for Your startup or company instead of traditional fundraising, and that might be a smart decision if You have analysed all the…
- Startup Stories — Deciding architectureThis is a small fictional story about a startup named EventsAreAwesome.io, and their struggle to find the optimal software architecture for their product.
- Slack anti-patternsWe are using Slack at Ministry of Programming for a long time, and after 20+ slack projects we have identified certain recurring anti-patterns in Slack, which are not a problem with Slack as a tool,…
- Polyglot programming in startup environmentsRecently I founded a software development company called Ministry of Programming, and one of the topics that often goes through my head is the problem of overuse of polyglot programming, which is…