Ref.: Avito is the most popular classifieds web service in Russia and is the second biggest classified ads website in the world after Craigslist. Founded in 2007 by Swedish co-founders Jonas Nordlander and Filip Engelbert. Internally at Avito, when they say “maturity model”, what that means exactly is a list…

Suppose the meeting is complex, such as a workshop or a strategic session. In that case, the moderator needs to have an exact plan by the minute to understand whether he can meet the specified interval and achieve the result while having a margin of time. It might look like this:

In order to launch a new team, there are several steps that need to be well facilitated. Step 1. Product Owner shares product vision It is important for everyone to understand why, how and why we are making this particular product, for whom and how we will understand that we have achieved success. Step 2. Choose a new team name It’s great when the…

Processes are the best thing you can do as a CTO or Product Director. This is an investment, the foundation in which your teams will already live: the house that you are laying, rooms, railings, terraces, windows, doors, and how you organize this foundation, this frame, will depend on how…

I spoke at the VB Trend 2021 conference, where I talked about the sharing of knowledge in IT companies. Below is a video and a transcript of my speech. 1. Start sharing knowledge in companies If we talk about knowledge and the lifetime of an employee, then the most critical…

Objectives and Key Results is a method used in modern management to manage products. It allows you to synchronize team and individual goals and provide effective control over the implementation of tasks. The OKR method was developed at Intel Corporation, after which it became widespread in a number of large…

If you are a technical director or you have a piece of the technical department for which you are responsible, for example, a technical platform, then you need some kind of strategy — where you are going — in the context of a year, three, five years; strategic projects and…

In order to systematically develop engineers and technical managers in your department, you, as a technical director, need to create a mechanism and architecture for this system. Usually HR's have grades. They are needed in order to put down salary brackets and raise or lower wages. Usually these grades are…

I am starting a new story as the founder and CEO of TechKarma Consulting. TechKarma is a consulting company that helps IT departments set up internal processes to run like a Swiss watch. Tech — because we love technical departments, teams of engineers and technical managers of different ranks. Karma…