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Using a Kano model in a startup

The Kano Model Hmm how do I begin on this? ok, maybe it’s best I use a Wikipedia summary to start off with, “Kano Model is a theory of product development and customer satisfaction, developed in the 80’s”. It’s just a framework, tool, technique or very simply put, “a method by which which we determine how satisfied both current and prospective our product customers will be by our product features. So for anyone who thinks about using our product should be made aware of the value it provides them. A different mindset Thinking of the features in terms of the Kano model, really does enforce a different mindset to me. I mean, given my engineering background, so I would always think about doing  (or building) cool things with tech, I didn’t care about how usable it was. I mean, “it’s obvious to me right? so the people who don’t get it, need to adapt to using it”. Yes, believe it or not, a lot of engineers think like that, I mean given how demanding our engineering degrees are...

The art of building software while working alone

In most of my past jobs, I had the opportunity of working with a great team! I mean those who I have worked alongside have always been some kind of awesome. All except for that one member, that I never really liked very much. In this post, I will briefly talk about my evolution as a Software developer and how I evolved to be a lot like that one team member I wasn't too thrilled about working with. That ONE team member In most of my past jobs, working in a team was always heaps of fun, unfortunately every team had someone who would make a plan, have deadlines, monitor the time spent on each task, etc. Yes of course I am talking about the Project Manager. In some of my early jobs, every time a project manager asked me "how long it would take me to finish something?"   one of the first things in my mind would be, "ahh dude go away, let me write code in peace". I mean all I want to do is write good code i.e. code which is modular, follows the right design pat...