Bad Practice

📊 Building Triage

I found that communicating development progress across internal teams and externally to users, in way that is understandable…

🚗 Building a Car Pool App: Working With React Native

Working from the MVP definition and UI mockup in my previous story, I needed to build something to work on a mobile device. I don’t have much experience with working with native code on iOS or Android, but I have played with hybrid…

📉 📬 Making a Trello Activity Digest: MVP

At Persona, we use Trello extensively to organise and plan our days and sprints to build awesome recruitment products. But, as I covered in my previous post, as great as Trello is, we struggle to get it work for our daily stand-ups for retrospectively…

📉 📬 Making a Trello Activity Digest: Problem Definition

At Persona we rely on Trello to communicate our progress in our day-to-day work.

🔮 5 Personal Development Tips For Budding Developers

I had recently held an interview with an enthusiastic Computer Science student, hoping to join the Persona team on one of our internship streams. Unfortunately his technical ability wasn’t suitable for the position, but we were gutted…

🚗 Building a Car Pool App: MVP definition

Following on from my last post, I decided to define the scope of the solution for the problem I had discovered.

Problem:

When it takes longer than normal to be picked up, the driver has no way to…

🚗 Building a Car Pool App: Playing With Ideas

After defining what the problem was that this solution would solve:

When it takes longer than normal to be picked up, the driver has no way to express the problem and pickups have no way of knowing.

🚗 Building a Car Pool App: Problem Definition

When our office at Persona moved into the middle of no-where, it took me 1 hour and a half from door-to-door to get into the office; and a similar time for my colleagues. One of my colleagues decided it would be best if he got his driving licence…

📢 A Second Look on How We Present Vacancies: Admin

In my previous story, I had spoken about the teardown that I performed on a subset of vacancies our users have posted on Persona.

Following that, the next stage was to make sure that our users have the right tools…