Nataliia Peterheria

Nataliia Peterheria

Project Manager / Software Engineer @ Django Stars

“Agile and technology rule the world. By combining them, we create complex digital products that are easy to use.”

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How we Combined Deadline-Driven Development with Agile — and Delivered
The title for this post sounds seemingly impossible. But in our experience, everything can be done if the development team and project manager have deep expertise and, along with the product owner, carefully listen to each other and keep themselves open to cooperation. Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to...
Jira Essentials for Product Owners. A Must-Have Project Setup Guide
My name is Nataliia Peterheria and for more than 3 years I’ve been working as a Project Manager in projects of all levels of complexity. Agile and technology rule the world so by combining them we create complex digital products that are easy to use. Jira is a perfect tool for building products using Agile methodologies. And here, I share my experience of using Jira for managing working process, show...
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How to Manage a Software Development Team Across Time Zones
With globalization gaining momentum, work practices have changed and evolved. Finding the best people for the team has become less of a challenge, since the whole world has been turned into a giant hiring pool. Over the past few years, businesses have collected ideas and working practices that can help them to make the most of remote work and allow everyone to be as effective as possible, no matter their...
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How to Successfully Set Tasks For a Development Team
There’s a saying that goes “Go I know not whither and fetch I know not what” and usually, mostly ironically, this describes a poorly set task – something that we all know too well and had to suffer through more than once. But, after more than three years of working on projects of all levels of complexity, I’ve developed some special organizing skills and an in-depth know-how of working in...
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Secrets of Effective Work Planning in Scrum
Our experiences make us who we are. This guide is a set of personal findings and experiences the development team and I acquired while working on numerous projects. Like many other companies, we work in Scrum. But Scrum just gives us rules on how to organize the work process. By trial and error, I tried to polish formula to organize every sprint as efficiently as possible based on business demands...
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How to Form a Successful Development Team
A good team isn’t something that happens on its own. But why do we need one at all? Don’t good professionals form a good team by default? The thing is, it’s not enough to lock them in a room and give them a deadline. An efficient team isn’t just about professionalism; it’s also about how the team members interact. Only a truly efficient team can deal with the workload faster...
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Creating an Online Mortgage Service: Tips and Insights
Having started its rise in the 2010s, fintech has changed the image of traditional financial services. With online banking, online investing, and online payments already existing, it has been only a matter of time for mortgage and loans to become digital products. They are becoming much more convenient than their traditional versions, more oriented at customers, and less time-consuming. And all these benefits are completed with the fact that millennials,...