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Hey connections.... 🙂 I'm thrilled to share that I have completed the design phase of my project, and it looks amazing! 🎉 As we know, designing a solid prototype is crucial for any successful software. After two weeks of rigorous requirement analysis, we have crafted this prototype. This marks the third phase of our development journey. Check out the video to see our progress so far. Your feedback and thoughts are always welcome! #SoftwareDevelopment #Agile #Prototype #TechInnovation #ProjectUpdate

As developers, we often face a tough choice: do we prioritize faster development, or focus on scalability? It’s a balancing act. Sometimes, in the rush to meet deadlines or ship a product quickly, we might have to make sacrifices that impact the scalability of our application down the road. Other times, taking the time to build a more scalable solution can slow us down. From my experience, it’s all about finding the right balance depending on the project’s goals. What’s your approach? How do you prioritize between development speed and long-term scalability? Would love to hear your thoughts! #scalability #software #development #product #projectmanagement #IT

Think Shape Up is just another framework? Here’s why it works. I get it. New frameworks pop up all the time, each promising to be the answer to delivery struggles. But here’s what makes Shape Up different: it’s designed to work within the realities of complex software development—not against them. With Shape Up, you’re not just adding another process layer. You’re embracing a flexible structure that lets your team handle unknowns, adapt scope, and still deliver on time. If your team is tired of trying the same solutions that don’t work, join my free session on November 21st. I’ll walk you through why this approach is a better way to work. https://lnkd.in/ejNxkB4k #development #productmanagement

A product cannot be "modular" in any meaningful sense if the product thinking isn't modular. Sure, you can create "services" and "repositories" and all that bullsh** But that doesn't significantly improve the maintainability of the codebase. That's fake, useless modularity. An example of what I mean by product thinking being modular: imagine you're designing software to manage credit card rewards. Youre gonna ingest credit card spending events from various sources, and those charges generate points for people, and then people can redeem those points for rewards. Now imagine the PM says: "oh but I don't want the rewards to be just points. Partners should be able to issue other rewards like discounts on monthly fees and the like." As an engineer, there are two ways you can go here. You can be an order-taker and build that monstrosity. Or you can enforce disciplined, modular product thinking and say something like: "Well, if we tightly bind expenses to different kinds of rewards, then in the future any time we want to support a new kind of reward we will need some code changes that touch basically every part of the system. If we think about our system in a way that charges can only ever convert to points, then we can always build additional functionality to convert points to whatever else. The fact that this is a two step process can be hidden from users in the UI, they don't have to know. But keeping the concern of earning points separate from the concern of redeeming points will simplify our software significantly." This is actually meaningful separation of concerns. It's not premature optimization because it actually simplifies the system _now_. If you get your PMs on board with this idea and understand the system at this level, then everybody wins. The system to ingest charges and earn points is independently testable, and you never need to touch it whenever you want to support a new kind of reward. Encourage your team and your product owners to split the business domain itself into simple modules, and then the software's modularity will easily follow. Trying to modularize a system where the domain tightly binds every concern cannot be achieved to any meaningful degree. Doesn't matter how many stupid abstract classes you create, repositories, services, whatever. All useless if the domain is muddled. #softwareengineering

The product discovery phase…do you need it or not? 🏁 In our experience, a strong discovery phase saves our clients 💲💲on dev costs and lays a foundation for project success. Even better? We offer prototyping in the discovery phase, breathing life into your ideas early on. So what exactly happens in the product discovery phase? 🤔 1️⃣ Define project objectives, understand user needs, and align them with business goals. 2️⃣ Select the right technologies to build your product. Identify any potential challenges. 3️⃣ Spot overlooked flows and edge cases early to prevent costly revisions. 4️⃣ Anticipate project risks and come up with strategies to handle them. 5️⃣ Provide clear budget and timeline estimates. Set realistic expectations. What makes our discovery phase unique? Prototyping. 🍏 You get a core data model in a sandbox environment within 3 days to 2 weeks. The perfect way to test your assumptions before going to market! See the full scope of our product discovery phase (it’s saved our clients time and money)👇 https://lnkd.in/d2C2G2Nv #productdevelopment #softwareagency #appdevelopment #discovery #software

How to launch your MVP in 30 days? Follow this hand-guide to build a prototype! https://lnkd.in/gp237ZDs #mvp #prototype #software #product

How to Build an Internal Developer Platform Like a Product... Learn from four platform advocates about how to apply a Platform as a Product mindset to your platform engineering strategy.

Software engineering is about understanding the problem/domain and making sure (proofs ;) that your thinking is correct and efficient enough. It is about simplifying complex models into something manageable. It is not about language quirks, it is not about paradigms, it is not about tools.

Wireframing bridges abstract concepts to code, fostering shared understanding among roles in software development. It empowers developers to navigate complexities while aligning with project vision. Discover its crucial role for developers in this post. #wireframe #wireframing #softwaredevelopment #MockFlow