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Project Management
We employ a mixture of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies. We are not strict adherents to any methodology and adapt the best of any method to our unique global, remote team.
- We conduct daily Agile scrum meetings where we ask each team member what they did or completed since the last meeting, and what they plan to work on next.
- Scrum meetings have strict 15 minute maximum durations.
- Scrum masters are engineers and rotate every sprint.
- 2 week per sprint
- We use ZenHub to manage our sprints.
- At the end of each week, we track and share each contributor’s burndown progress towards their sprint goals to the entire team.
- A product management app (Kanban board) built on top of GitHub Project API integrations. All issues are linked to a GitHub issue.
- The tasks to-do lists are organized for designers and engineers.
- Each task starts off assigned to a (1) researcher, which gets passed to a (2) designer, (3) front-end developer, (4) back-end developer, (5) tester, (6) marketeer.
- All issues are assigned to a parent epic, time estimate, and assignee.
- Parents epics have deadlines in a roadmap.
- Similar to JIRA, GitHub/Lab Issues
- Each team member has a list in Trello that is sorted in order of importance. Each team member will work on his/her tasks in the order in the Trello board.
- Our task management (using ZenHub issues) follows a waterfall structure where each feature is first researched by a PM or market researcher, to understand user needs and pain point, and competitive analysis of the market.
- The PM will then pass on the feature requirement document to a UX/UI designer to design the feature. The product designers will first start with information architecture, then wireframes, and finally UI high fidelity mockups.
- The design documents (Figma) are then given to front-end engineers to make the pixel-perfect components, and entire web page or native mobile app. Front-end engineers will build fake APIs at this stage to test the front-end UX.
- Next, back-end engineers will build the requisite databases, logic, and API.
- Finally, our test engineers will test and verify with the PM that the product is built as designed, with no bugs.
- Initiatives are product grouped devised by the PM, and prioritized by the PM.
- Epics are groups of Issues created and organized by engineering.
- Each initiative or sub-initiative contains many epics or issues.
- PMs will prioritize the initiatives, while engineering will prioritize issues that belong to the high priority initiatives.
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