Leading developers at a distance places high demands on the project manager. Our CTO Henrik Melchander has listed the three most common mistakes – for you to avoid them.

1 Has the wrong information.

The most common problem when leading at a distance is misunderstandings. These can be caused by a number of things: the client might have given wrong information, but it could also be that the project manager or the developers have misunderstood what the client said. Misunderstandings can also arise when you’ve understood the information right, but documented it incorrectly.

At the...

High performance and scalability – those were two major expectations when a client entrusted us to build a new sports social networking platform. In this blog post, our technical architect Sandeep Rajoria explains how we created the architecture of this top-of-the-line platform.

Since microservices are designed for scalability and high performance, we decided to use Event Sourcing and CQRS as the architecture of this new product.

The aim of this blog is to share some insights and implementation details about the main components of these architecture patterns – this is by no me...

Leadership is always challenging – but leading distributed teams is even more demanding. We see five important qualities that a project manager needs when leading a team of developers at a distance. Here’s our list of what a long distance leader needs to be – and why.

1 Clear

Being clear in how you express yourself and how you lead meetings is necessary when leading at a distance. Sometimes being clear means setting up a structure for meetings, with routines for when and how the meetings will be held. Being clear also means that all stakeholders in a project should know what the proj...

Are you having a hard time trying to recruit developers? No wonder – there is a shortage of developers in Sweden. And as more and more industries become digitalized, the need for IT professionals increases. In the year 2022 Sweden will require 70.000 developers, according to the employer organization Swedish IT and Telecom Industries.

In Stockholm the shortage of IT staff is so problematic that it has put a break on the economy’s growth, according to the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

– When Stockholm slows down it can affect the economy of the whole country. The shortage of d...