Join Poornima Vijayashanker, founding engineer at Mint.com, as she talks with tech professionals about key topics in a rapidly shifting culture. New episodes of BuildTV are released weekly, so check back here for updates.
A redesign is a great way to reinvent your brand, get a leg up on the competition, and revisit those clunky and outdated workflows. While we may be eager to jump right in, we have to be careful about what is actually going to help us accomplish our business goals. Read more...
All this month on Build, we’ve been talking about project management. First, we shared two ground rules you need to set for yourself to get through a software project successfully, and in the last episode, we shared strategies for handling new ideas and unexpected challenges that may derail your project. Read more...
In the last episode, we talked shared two ground rules you need to set for yourself to get through a software project successfully. But we know that managing our own anxieties is only half the battle to keeping the project on course; the other is navigating new ideas or unanticipated challenges. Read more...
So you got tasked with managing your first high-stakes software project? Like handling tech debt, breaking up a monolithic code base into a microservices architecture, or something else? Congratulations! Are you excited? Maybe a little nervous? Read more...
As if preparing and delivering a presentation to your peers isn’t nerve-wracking enough, you also have to worry about the Q&A period at the end of your talk! Read more...
All this month, we’ve been focused on the theme of pitching. We started out by talking about why many creative problem solvers shy away from pitching, leaving it up to CEOs, founders, and salespeople. But pitching is a valuable skill that all of us need to hone in order for people hear us out, adopt our ideas, and believe in our solutions. Read more...
One of the reasons people don’t like pitching is because they feel like they have to be someone else. They have to abandon their personality, get into character, and speak in a way they normally wouldn’t in order to impress a colleague, customer, or investor. Read more...
Have you ever had an idea for something, like a process or product that you wanted to improve? But instead of sharing your idea with others, like your friends or coworkers, you just kept it to yourself because the thought of having to “pitch it” felt icky and salesy? Read more...
For every product release, our goals are the same—we want to show customers we care about meeting their needs and we want to stay ahead of our competition! So how do we get it all done? We cram as many features and bugs as we can think of. Cutting back is for complainers! Read more...
In the final episode on side projects for this month, we’re going to talk about how to keep your passion project growing despite challenges. Read more...
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