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Scaling Your Code Base – Is your Startup Growth Stage Ready?
Your MVP works; there’s a market for your idea! Awesome, great job!
Before you start massively growing your customer base and making some serious money, think about your software. Is the code a jumbled mess? Will it ever make sense for the throngs of new devs you’re about to hire?
Scaling Your Tech Team – Every Growth Stage Startup NEEDS this
You’ve found the product-market fit for your MVP. Your Startup has entered the Growth stage. Congratulations, you’ve almost made it.
How about your engineering team? Does it hold up to the rapidly growing customer base? It needs to grow too, perhaps not just as fast. You have to be smart about it.
451,113 Slack messages
196 cans of Panaxeo beer, 12 game nights… and more numbers of 2023!
6 times Agile brought value to our clients (and us)
We’ve been banging on about the value of agility and specifically Scrum for a while. There’s no change there; it’s still useful. But you need real examples, don’t you? Well, we’ve got some for you.
A surprisingly simple recipe for predictable velocity (you won’t like it)
I recently noticed a rising urge to measure predictability in software teams. Allow me to explain how to achieve it:
Set a target velocity. Explain to your team that hitting this number as closely as possible means success.
Make them slap a generous buffer on every estimate they make. (This is critical.)
Deliver the precise amount of story points needed early in the sprint….
Deploying an Android App to Google Play Console via Bitrise: An Up-to-Date Manual
The Official Bitrise Guide for deploying Android apps with Bitrise to Google Play is outdated. There’s no mention of permissions — and they can cause lots of confusion.
4 Must-have features in an employee app.
Every large company needs employees who are up to speed with the current company affairs. It needs to communicate each news piece clearly and efficiently.
32 Certificates Later, Everything We Thought We Knew about Scrum Was False
Over the 250,000 hours, we’ve seen it all when it comes to Agile development. Our takeaway? Agile is being outright murdered on a massive scale in the software industry. The amount of potential value lost by misunderstanding Agile just boggles the mind.
How to Pass the PSM II Scrum Master Certificate in 7 Days + Free Study Plan
Seven days after passing my PSM I exam, I took a shot at the more challenging PSM II certification. I passed with a score of 97%.
Quality issues? Focus on this.
Why is the Definition of Done important? How much harm can a poor or non-existent DoD do? How to build and evolve a good DoD? What’s a DoD got to do with optimizing your workflow? Adam Okruhlica, our co-CEO, explains all of it in this post.
Have strong expressions.
Who wouldn’t want to use strongly typed TypeScript code in their Node.js Express app? Turns out it might be a little tricky, especially when trying to define routes or request and response objects.
But worry not, there is of course a way!
A child and a half and counting
The end of the year is a time of evaluating. Panaxeo is no different. We want to impact the world we live in – in a good way.
Typescript is the only way.
How to get read-only arrays in TypeScript? Defining an array as a const is not enough, it prevents reassignment of its value but can still be modified.
Get a job + With us!
Thinking about becoming a Panaxean yourself? Perhaps you’ve been scrolling through our [open positions](https://www.panaxeo.com/jobs), been contacted by one of our colleagues, or maybe you’re just curious. Whatever the case, we’re thrilled! Howdy! 👋
Your browser sucks.
New CSS features are appearing rapidly, and browser support always lags behind. For example the new Nesting Feature. We’ve always wanted it, but no browser supports it right now.
414,000 Slack messages.
The turn of the years is a good time to look back and reflect. For Panaxeo, 2022 was the time when we finally put down on paper who we are, what we do, and what we stand for.
A kidney for an app
Want to significantly lower your mobile development costs? What are some of the tricks that software agencies use to overcharge you? And how do you find that credible outsourcing partner worth the money?
2/5 stars, the app is still trash
Product/service flaws make up for 40% of angry reviews mobile app users leave on the store review page. Learn how to save your app’s reputation by avoiding these 5 mistakes. Great tips inside - happy reading!
We used to like you, Mark…
In case you were wondering, why we are not active on Meta owned social media, here is a short explainer.