simplicity

How we measure simplicity to make sure users can do more with less

At Squadlytics we have a strong commitment to simplicity and we have put a little framework together to help measure friction in our product.

productivity

A simple tool to promote trust in your company culture

Here's how we're helping switch to a trust-based culture at Squadlytics.

goals

Focus on outcomes, not hours spent in the office

There are many blessings in being a remote team, but one that I like particularly is that you can't check over your shoulder to see who's in the office

What do Atlassian and YC have in common?

Atlassian and YC have a lot of smart folks, but they also do something simple to keep the momentum up and help their teams deliver their best work.

product development

Get your end-to-end pipeline ready before coding any features

When you get a great idea, the next thing is to start building your MVP. But you should ship a "Hello World" to production instead of coding features.

Building in the open: Making project statuses smart

The great thing about building Squadlytics is that we can use it to track our own projects. Last week we turned on our status bot, and I received my first notifications!

product development

Build stories, not features

No one gets excited at the idea of having another set of credentials to manage. Being safe is the story, and having a password is the feature.

product development

When Growth Hacking can slow you down

Growth hacking is simple: run experiments to make your product more successful. But it can also be a very effective way to mess up your business.

Building in the open: Designing simple, intuitive project updates

See what we're doing to keep project updates simple, easy and powerful. Read about the core principles guiding our designs.

Building in the open: A low-fi overview of our simple goal tracking platform

A few weeks ago, we announced how we were changing the product direction for Squadlytics. Today I'll give you a glimpse of what we're building to help teams track their goals.

software development

Local development with HTTPS on OSX

One thing that has always been a PITA for me is using HTTPS for local development.

pivot

We are pivoting Squadlytics

The purpose of Squadlytics has and will always be the same: to help teams work better together. But analytics alone won't be the answer to this problem.

Design

We need to talk about experience debt

Technical debt is something that is highly visible to the team, but we often have a hard time understanding the tradeoffs we make on the user experience.

software development

3 questions to keep in mind when building software

At its essence, a program is a set of binary decisions, true or false. But in reality, building information systems is rarely about being right or wrong.

productivity

3 simple productivity metrics for every software team

We tend to rely only on tracking sales at the end of the funnel while hoping that productivity stays the same. And it's only after customers have started to leave us that we look back at the way we work to understand what went wrong.

The economy of continuous delivery

How to convince your organization to invest in your release cycle.

release cycle

Squad weekly: Announcing Team Insights

Get personal dashboards for every team member.

development

A quick death by slow releases

* Hey, can we tweak the copy on that button? * Yeah, done. * Great! Let me know when it's online. * Hmm, probably in 2-3 months. We'll batch it with the next release. * ... * 🙃 This type of conversation happens on many occasions. It doesn't matter if you&

development

Managing technical debt: live for the refactor, dedicate streams

Technical debt is an inherent part of software development. You can't prevent it from happening but there are ways to make it easier to handle.

Design

Designing Tranquility at Work

The thing about designing a brand is that it’s not so much about making something new, it’s about understanding something that exists and helping it express what it already wants to say. So I asked Sten what the goal of his new product was, he defined it as

Switching to documentation-as-code with Gatsby.js and Netlify — Search & analytics (3/3)

This is the final part of our tutorial about managing documentation as code. * Part 1 [https://blog.tability.io/how-we-switched-to-documentation-as-code-with-gatsby-js-and-netlify-markdown-hosting-1-3/] : Managing content with Markdown files and hosting on Netlify. * Part 2 [https://blog.tability.io/

Switching to documentation-as-code with Gatsby.js and Netlify — Layout & images (2/3)

This is the second part of our tutorial about managing documentation as code. I originally thought that 2 parts would be enough but this post is rather long and I’ll be adding another one for analytics and search. * Link to part 1 [https://blog.tability.io/how-we-switched-

How we switched to documentation-as-code with Gatsby.js and Netlify — Markdown & hosting (1/3)

It’s been a few weeks now that we have switched to a static site to manage our docs. This is a 3 parts series where we will explain why we did this and show you how it can be done with Gatsby.js and Netlify. * In part 1 (this

Keep some of your life boring to do exciting stuff

There’s a great post [http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology] written by Dan McKinley that advises to limit the number of new technology you pick for a project. The premise is that if you adopt too many new concepts you will spend most of your time learning and debugging

Make sure hard work is fun too

Building a company from the ground up is hard. Throw in having a toddler and a newborn and you just increased the level of difficulty. This is my current situation with Squadlytics [https://squadlytics.com] but with simple tweaks to my working habits I brought a lot of happiness to