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Published in Management Matters

·Aug 4, 2021

Giving feedback is giving gifts

How to give feedback (with examples) — Have you ever received feedback that has shocked and surprised you? Has anyone told you you’re not doing something right in a manner that was upsetting and conflicting? Chances are it was not you, it was them. A recent Harvard Business Review study shows that negative feedback is a psychological…

Feedback

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Giving feedback is giving gifts
Giving feedback is giving gifts

Published in Bolt CMS

·Jun 4, 2021

How to build a personal blog with Bolt CMS in under 30 minutes…

Have you not heard of Bolt CMS before? Let me fill you in on the big picture in under 30 seconds: Bolt CMS is the content management system built for all three user groups: you, the implementor, the content editors, and the site end users. At Bolt HQ, we are…

Symfony

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How to build a personal blog with Bolt CMS in under 30 minutes…
How to build a personal blog with Bolt CMS in under 30 minutes…

Apr 10, 2021

What is it like to work at a web design agency?

Sharing my first-hand experience over the past year and a bit — Do you want to know what it is like to work for a web design agency? In the next few minutes, I’ll share with you my experience for working as a developer at a 10-people agency over the past year and a bit. 1. You’ll work on many, many projects every quarter, and every year. Especially at web development agencies, who mostly…

Web Development

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What is it like to work at a web design agency?
What is it like to work at a web design agency?

Published in Product Coalition

·Dec 13, 2020

Building a small, open-source product: how it happened

How I built a usable product through curiosity and iteration — This December 2020, in the space of a little over a couple of weeks, I built a small open-source application. tinybreak.online is a tab in your browser that reminds you to take regular 20-second breaks, every 20 minutes. …

New Product Development

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Building a small, open-source product: how it happened
Building a small, open-source product: how it happened

Published in Management Matters

·Oct 5, 2020

The lessons I learned from my first experience as a manager

Shortly after my promotion to Software Developer and Junior Product Manager, I was given my first professional assignment that involved managing people. That assignment required me to teach 2 co-workers, who had recently joined the company, to work with Bolt CMS [an open-source, in-house developed content management system]. …

Management

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The lessons I learned from my first experience as a manager
The lessons I learned from my first experience as a manager

Sep 28, 2020

4 lessons learnt launching my first product

Hint: I learned a lot. And I loved every minute. — Bolt CMS v4, the project I’ve worked on for one year now, has just been released. It has been quite a journey involving a lot of learning and dedication (as well as waking up at night with solutions to problems that bothered me during the day). …

Product

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4 lessons learnt launching my first product
4 lessons learnt launching my first product

Published in Bolt CMS

·Sep 24, 2020

Bolt 4: the awesome CMS

Bolt CMS has been officially released this week, bringing fruit to a two-year-long journey of extensive development. During that time, we asked questions, we learnt from previous successes and mistakes, and we rolled up our sleeves and wrote code. The result? …

Content Management System

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Bolt 4: the awesome CMS
Bolt 4: the awesome CMS

Published in Product Coalition

·Apr 5, 2020

How to build a killer pricing page: a case study

Being bombarded with products all the time, we all find ourselves on a pricing page from time to time. Right? “Oh wow! What a great pricing page. It shows all the information I need, in good time and order. Wow, I want to try this out.” — said nobody ever. …

Product Management

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How to build a killer pricing page: a case study
How to build a killer pricing page: a case study

Published in Product Coalition

·Feb 26, 2020

How to learn product

The 6 step guide to learning product — There is a lot of confusion out there about product, product management, product owners, product manager. Everyone’s talking about Agile, Scrum, Lean, etc. Learning is a step-by-step process, building one block of knowledge on top of the other. …

Product Management

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How to learn product
How to learn product

Published in Product Coalition

·Feb 18, 2020

eBay’s search metrics used to suck

To live in the Information Age sounds fun and, for the most part, it is. In this age, data is becoming increasingly easier to collect. But as we get more and more of it, to organise this data into information we can get meaning and value from becomes a challenge…

Product Management

5 min read

eBay’s search metrics used to suck
eBay’s search metrics used to suck
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Ivo Valchev

product owner @TwoKings web design agency | https://www.linkedin.com/in/valchevivo/

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