Thoughts and tips from 14 years in web-projects industry

Povilas Korop

Apr 12, 2019

15 Lessons From Re-Writing Big Project From Zero

How we raised prices 3x. Twice. And got happy customers.

Povilas Korop

Jun 4, 2017

‘Because’ is a magic word in business

Effective business is all about communication. And I think there’s an area where many people make fatal mistake. They are talking too much about ‘what’, and skip the ‘why’.

Povilas Korop

May 23, 2017

Stress of Software Product: Bugs, Features and Business

No more long software specifications. Let’s just draw and talk.

Dear client,
I know it’s hard. Hard to explain to us, to developers, what you actually need. I understand it’s all inside your head, you just don’t have time to write that 20-pages software specification. Guess what —…

Povilas Korop

Jan 1, 2017

15 Phrases That May Kill Your Web-Project

Notice: this article was originally published on our project QuickAdmin blog.

There are words and phrases you totally don’t want to hear or read during your web-project creation process. I’ve decided to take the most painful ones…

Why the result of coding is not the code

Notice: this article was originally published on our project QuickAdmin blog.

I see a problem in modern software development. Which hurts businesses a lot. Our own QuickAdmin suffers from it, too, so this article is kind of a…

Povilas Korop

Nov 5, 2016

Moving from Services to Product: 7 business lessons learned from 1000 first customers

Notice: this article was originally published on our QuickAdmin blog.

I love reading stories about startups and small businesses — how they started, what were…

Dear Clients, please work on your projects too

The biggest problem in IT projects is that they are not completed on time or within budget. And quite often the blame is on vendors — development agencies or freelancers. But actually the clients have a huge influence on the success of their…

Povilas Korop

Jul 25, 2016

Different levels of ASAP, or When clients can wait

Having been on various web-development teams in different roles, I’ve noticed a lot of similarities, no matter the project, team size, budget or continent. One of them — clients demanding things ASAP. Now I will tell you a well-known secret —…