Articles on Process

Kelsey Brennan

Kelsey Brennan

Top Five Questions Founders Ask – Part 3

As a full-stack software consultancy, we at Carbon Five get lots of questions from clients past, present, and future. We’re passionate about sharing our industry knowledge, so we sat down with our leadership team and got some advice for aspiring founders and product leaders as part of an ongoing 6-part series. You can see all

Kelsey Brennan

Kelsey Brennan

Habits of Effective Teams

Have you ever worked on a team that went off the rails? Product teams need lots of support to run efficiently. You need to move fast, but you also need to be aligned in order to build successful products. Here are a few activities we use to keep our teams moving. We often facilitate them

Andrew Hao

Andrew Hao

Creating the Dream Team: Transform Your Engineering Organization to Attract New Talent

It’s a common scenario for tech companies: Your hiring pipeline is dry and you can’t seem to attract new talent. You notice companies touting long lists of superficial benefits. Instead of improving your internal team, you find yourself worrying about getting a pro-grade ping pong table for the break room. You don’t need helicopter rides

Alexa Roman

Alexa Roman

Delivering value, Making money

When I begin working on a new product, I’m always looking for ways to optimize the interactions for business and user value. I believe the best way to accomplish that is to get to market as early as possible with the proposed value. By getting to market, I mean everything from talking with customers about

Jeremy Morony

Jeremy Morony

Product Management For Agile Teams: Why Oh Why

At Carbon Five, we build software. We build it using Agile methods. This has worked out well for us and our clients for a long time. We recently added product management as a discipline to our team. There are some common challenges we see at C5 and we’ve been deliberately experimenting with different activities and practices around product development,

Yasmine Molavi

Yasmine Molavi

The Power of Process

A couple of months ago I did a lightning talk at Kluge’s Evenings at the Loft sharing my ideal design process checklist. Here are my hand-drawn slides and notes:  

Elias Crouch

Elias Crouch

Apple’s Built-in iOS 8 Usability Testing Feature

Hot Tip! For those of you that make decisions based on hierarchy, composition, and usability (read Designers) Apple gave us a great tool without even knowing it. tl;dr: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Grayscale: On.

Courtney Hemphill

Courtney Hemphill

Scoot & Doodle Featured in the App Store.

Chris Egy Rose and Patty Chang came to Carbon Five in spring of 2012 with an exciting new concept around facilitating human interaction and connected learning. The idea was to allow young people to connect with their friends, classmates and families through face-to-face interactions and a shared canvas. The interactive canvas overlay allows participants to

Michael Avila

Michael Avila

Same Team, New Tricks

I am writing this to explore the following line of thought: We can increase the value we generate without expanding our talent pool Improving quality creates the most value Inflexibility keeps us from improving Ignoring queues is the primary cause of our inflexibility Kanban is the method for managing our queues Once flexibility exists, we

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admin

MVP In Four Weeks

On a recent project, my client set the ambitious goal of launching their MVP (minimum viable product) with just four weeks of development time. The entire project was budgeted for just two months, and we needed to launch midway so that we could gather data and user feedback, then iterate on those learnings. (At the