Essays

Goals and KPIs can destroy the workflow. How can meaningful objectives be disruptive? Learn to avoid the mess in setting goals and KPIs in just one simple step.

Why are deadlines important for software development—even if we all hate them sincerely? I’ve spent 10 years figuring it out. Enjoy the results of my research!

Find out how a startup founder should profit from both entrepreneur self-doubt and confidence—especially when the product needs to be tested yet.

While it’s true that automation is a popular buzzword right now, there’s still a lot of evidence to back that buzz up.

It’s never too late: read these 8 easy, frank tips on overcoming fear of public speaking and learn to speak confidently on stage.

Use this easy rule of thumb to know when to close a startup instead of staying a “promising company” that won’t deliver anything in the next ten years.

The best way to try out a product management role is to launch your own product. All other skills and qualities will gradually come. Or not.

Discover the golden rule of software development time estimation that fits any team and is proven by years of expertise.

Check out what transparency in the workplace can bring your company — and how no transparency screws everything up.

Learn from my experience of how to focus on work when Slack and Facebook lure you into talks.

In the age of specialization it looks like unbundling is the only viable strategy. Well, it is not.

There's only one way out: start creating the minimum viable product. This is the most effective strategy for product validation. Why? It brings you external feedback.

Measuring developer productivity by hours is an attempt to reduce uncertainty by squeezing it into a simple model. Yet in our industry, we must accept uncertainty, learn to thrive with it.

There is an important decision to make: build a lifestyle business or a startup? And the sooner you decide, the sooner you will stop worrying and start living.

The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.

Quite many top startups had a transformative near-death experience that changed everything and help them to find a path to success.

Features prioritization is the hardest problem in product management. Learn how to get better in it using... networks.

In this article I tried to briefly review all possible ways to add automation layer into a system.

Wiki concept is not new. But in Fibery it has a new twist.

We create Fibery.io based on several main principles. They are short, deep and concrete.