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Kanban for Multi-Project Management
- Kanban is no longer unsuitable for multi-project management with modern Kanban tooling like Teamhood.
- Unique features of Teamhood enable flexible Kanban board structure, customizable visual cues, and global reporting.
- Flexible Kanban board structure with swimlanes, statuses, and sub-statuses allows easy management and identification of important work.
- Customizable visual cues help focus attention where it matters, with options like coloring rows, statuses, and items, and featuring attached images on item cards.
- Global reporting enables tracking progress for all projects in one place, including a global workload view to match capacity with project needs.
- Teamhood offers a system that supports multi-project management with Kanban.
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Users - The Guide to your Product Success.
- Behind every successful product lies one simple question: Is this product really solving the problem?
- User personas help in understanding the pain points and challenges faced by the target audience.
- To identify the pain points, it is essential to talk to users, observe their behavior, analyze data, utilize customer support insights, and review competitor feedback.
- User personas focus on goals, motivations, frustrations, reactions, and the core task the user is trying to achieve.
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Why I Invest in Zario
- Smartphone usage has been linked to mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, and declining focus.
- Increased use of social media has been pinpointed as a driving factor in the rise of anxiety and depression in Gen Z.
- The overall digital environment can lead to reduced productivity and social isolation.
- Zario helps users build healthier relationships with their devices and promotes real-life activities that enhance well-being and promote deeper connections.
- The app suggests alternatives and can block distracting apps to help users stay focused and productive.
- Digital wellbeing apps focus on increasing productivity in work settings, rather than addressing the challenge of managing screen time during leisure hours. Zario can help users develop healthier habits, not just during work but in their free time.
- By tracking and managing app usage on different platforms, Zario helps users develop meaningful alternatives and interventions.
- Zario could easily be applied to parental control to prevent adverse consequences of digital overload in kids.
- Zario is part of a growing trend in managing digital habits. Features like screen time reports, dark mode and night shift have also been introduced to improve digital wellness.
- Zario can help reduce the impact of digital overload on personal well-being, healthcare systems, and overall productivity.
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Effective PR Tactics for New Product Introductions
- Craft a compelling story around the product's unique features and benefits
- Partner with influencers to reach a wider audience and add authenticity
- Host a launch event for media, influencers, and potential customers
- Utilize social media for teaser campaigns, engagement, and building a community
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Raising a seed round 101
- Raising a seed round can be a high stakes and confusing part of being a startup founder and therefore startups must understand the nuances of raising a seed round to maximize the odds of success.
- Terrence Rohan, who has supported companies like Robinhood from their earliest stages and Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital who has invested in companies such as Lattice, provide an in-depth and practical guide on raising a seed round.
- Startups must first decide if venture capital is the right option for them and if so, they should pursue raising a seed round only if they have the ability to scale and want to give up approximately 10%-20% of their company to investors.
- Before raising a seed round, startups must have proof of commitment, proof of work, and proof of insight. Commitment entails leaving one’s old job and making a full commitment as the founder. Work entails doing enough research on the problem one seeks to solve. Insight entails one having a clear thesis on what they plan to build.
- Startups must decide how much money they should raise in a seed round and a simple formula is to aim for a 24-36 month runway, building in a 25% buffer.
- By activating emotional triggers of prospective investors such as the fear of missing out (FOMO), startups can maximize the odds of success of their seed capital fundraising.
- It is crucial to plan and prepare one’s pitch before meetings with investors. A well-crafted memo and minimal deck with relevant financials and proof of work are good to have. Startups must have strong intros to investors and practice perfect synchronous preparation for multiple pitch meetings to create excitement and a sense of urgency amongst investors.
- To offer startups insider insight, anecdotes and advice from successful founders who have raised nearly $9 billion in venture capital is integrated in the guide.
- Seed-stage venture capital primarily comes from three types of investors- angels, seed funds, and multi-stage firms each with their own investment philosophy and stage-specific expertise.
- Terms that matter in seed capital fundraising are post-money valuation and whether there is a board. The most important thing is that startups get the capital they need and the right partners at the price they can negotiate after researching different options.
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How Developers Destroy Brain Health
- Software developers' daily habits can work against their brain health. Marathon coding sessions, lack of exercise, ignoring mental stimulation and social isolation are particularly hazardous. Working extended periods of time without adequate breaks interrupts the natural rhythm of the brain, and sleep is essential for memory consolidation, emotional regulation and cognitive operations. Prolonged sleep loss can lead to cognitive decline, inattention and decision-making impairments. Developers should engage in healthy habits such as regular breaks, sleep schedules and following the Pomodoro technique.
- Regular physical exercise increases blood flow to the brain, sharpens cognitive functions, helps release neurotransmitters and reduces the risk of cognitive decline. Inactivity increases the susceptibility to mood disorders, dull thinking, obesity, diabetes and heart disease, all of which are particularly bad for the brain. Simple exercise sessions can be initiated with a few minutes per hour and increased with brisk walks, stretches or a standing desk at work.
- Continuous learning and intellectual stimulation are exactly what is required to maintain healthy cognitive activity and enhance mental performance. Developers should look for learning activities outside their operational environment - enroll in an online course, attend a tech meetup and learn one or two new programming languages and frameworks. Intellectual stimulation keeps the brain lively and quick.
- Social isolation and loneliness have psychological implications such as depression, anxiety and cognitive decline. Strong social relationships with family, friends and colleagues provide a good foundation toward maintaining mental health. Professional success and personal happiness should coexist, and changes such as a healthy work-life balance, rest, exercise and social engagement could go a long way in sustaining long-term cognition.
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Tackling UK ill health is vital to economic growth, says IPPR
- The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has urged the UK government to invest £15bn annually in tackling the country's growing ill-health crisis.
- The thinktank stated that the worsening health conditions were impacting workforce supply, productivity, pay, public finances, and regional inequality.
- The report suggested higher taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food companies, free school meals for primary schoolchildren, and the creation of health and prosperity improvement zones.
- The goal is to transition into a proactive healthcare system that focuses on improving health and adds 10 years to healthy life expectancy by 2055.
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The Real Story Behind Google's 'Awesome' Workplace: Don’t Believe the Hype
- Google's image of being an employee-first company is often more PR than practice.
- Despite praising flexibility and remote work publicly, Google has shifted internally, pushing remote employees out and tying career growth to office presence.
- Many employees experience rigid policies that don't align with the caring image Google projects.
- For real-time updates, unbiased searches, and powerful research capabilities, check out xdash.ai.
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Optimizing Python Code Using cProfile and PyPy module: A Complete Guide
- Python is known for its ease of use, readability, and vast ecosystem of libraries. But it's also slower than some other languages like C or Java due to its interpreted nature.
- Therefore, knowing how to optimize your Python code can be critical in performance-sensitive applications, like machine learning models, real-time systems, or high-frequency trading systems.
- Optimization typically follows these steps:Profile your code to understand where the bottlenecks are.
- Optimize the code in areas that are inefficient.Run the optimized code in a faster interpreter, like PyPy, to achieve maximum performance.
- cProfile is a built-in Python module for performance profiling.
- It tracks how much time each function in your code takes to execute, which can help you identify the functions or sections of code that are causing slowdowns.
- PyPy is an alternative Python interpreter that uses Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation to accelerate your Python code.
- PyPy’s JIT compiler optimizes the code paths that are executed most frequently, which can result in significant speedups without any code changes.
- With this approach, you can make your Python programs run faster and more efficiently, especially for CPU-bound tasks.
- Profile your code with cProfile to understand performance bottlenecks.Apply Python optimization techniques, such as using built-ins and memoization.
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Jogging with an AI Partner: How ChatGPT Elevates My Creative Process on the Run
- Jogging with an AI Partner: How ChatGPT Elevates My Creative Process on the Run
- Using the ChatGPT iOS app, I’ve started engaging in hands-free conversations through my headphones while jogging.
- The immediate evolution of thoughts as ideas surface, with ChatGPT offering insights, asking probing questions, or providing alternative perspectives.
- ChatGPT helps break down thoughts into manageable pieces, assisting in organizing ideas, highlighting potential pitfalls, and suggesting innovative solutions.
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Why Developers Should Use the Daily.dev Chrome Extension
- Daily.dev centralizes all the top tech and programming news from multiple sources.
- With a single click, it provides a curated feed of articles, tutorials, tips, and announcements.
- No need to visit multiple sites or scour Twitter for relevant news.
- Having all developer content in one feed ensures convenience and eliminates the fear of missing out.
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Master the Art of Focus: Proven Strategies for Programmers to Boost Productivity
- Discover key strategies to enhance focus and efficiency in your workday, boost productivity as a programmer, and avoid common pitfalls like social media distractions.
- Creating a distraction-free zone for maintaining focus, wearing headphones with some background music, is a good strategy to have a productive work environment.
- Staying in the zone, breaking down a task into smaller pieces and doing them one by one at a time is an effective technique to focus on just one thing at a time and finish a task efficiently and on time.
- Avoid social media distractions by not checking social media during office hours.
- Establishing a productive routine is crucial for maintaining focus and high performance throughout the day.
- Proper version control practices are essential for maintaining productivity and ensuring project integrity.
- By committing tasks properly, developers can ensure that their work is well-documented, maintainable, and aligned with the overall project goals.
- The strategies discussed in this blog are drawn from various books, blogs, advice from experienced professionals, and the author's own experiences.
- By implementing these strategies, programmers can work smarter and achieve more in less time.
- The author encourages adapting these tips to one's own work style and shares his curiosity about additional personal methods or tips that worked well for others in the comment section.
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Rethinking code reviews with stacked PRs
- The peer code review process is an essential part of software development, but its effectiveness drops exponentially with the increase in the size of the change.
- Stacked pull requests make smaller, iterative changes and are stacked on top of each other instead of bundling large monolith changes in a single pull request.
- Benefits of stacked PRs include early review feedback, faster CI feedback cycle, knowledge sharing, and freedom from getting blocked while waiting for a review.
- Stacked PR workflow is not supported natively by either Git or GitHub, but tools have been developed across the open-source community to enable engineers to incorporate these stacking techniques.
- To resolve conflicts, a merge commit strategy while stacking PRs is simpler but most teams discourage it to keep the git-history clean, leaving squash or rebase merge options.
- Aviator is a CLI tool that augments developer’s experience with enhanced PR management by creating, tracking, updating, and merging stacked PRs.
- Aviator also supports an advanced MergeQueue to manage auto-merging thousands of changes at scale and seamlessly integrates with CLI and stacked PRs.
- The increase in code review efficiency, faster feedback loops, and enhanced learning opportunities outweigh the overhead of breaking down changes into smaller parts.
- Aviator empowers developers to build faster and better by providing developer productivity tools.
- Stacked PRs will become increasingly useful as we continue embracing the shift-left principles.
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Microsoft Sway Exploited to Deliver Malicious QR Codes
- Hackers are exploiting Microsoft Sway to deliver malicious QR codes.
- They trick users into revealing their Microsoft 365 login credentials.
- QR code phishing using Sway is particularly effective due to transparent phishing.
- Mobile devices are more vulnerable to QR code exploits.
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Deep: How are companies driving growth?
- Netflix is using AI to improve the quality of voice dubbing by matching the lip movements of the original actors, instead of relying on spending a lot on original content. Airbnb's mobile product team has led to a 25% increase in global app downloads, Snap's choice to ignore the shift to enterprise trend and focus on a completely different segment led to an 85% increase in ad revenue. With traditional growth tactics like refer-a-friend under threat because of iOS18, and product teams increasingly burdened with figuring out how to drive growth while cutting costs, this deep dive explores some of the less conventional ways top tech companies are driving growth in 2024.
- The article will take an in-depth look at how companies including Lyft, Instacart, Grammarly, Spotify, Atlassian, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest and others are driving growth.
- One of the key highlighted tactics of Instacart has been its new API product which has contributed to growth. The API product is stimulating growth with partners like the New York Times and GE Appliances.
- The analysis explores growth tactics across specific categories, including internationalization, pricing models, customer segmentation, new features, new revenue streams, partnerships, and AI integration.
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