However, this is often easier said than done.
Their best answers are below:
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Dont design the UI/UX without consistently walking the programming team through what is produced and receiving feedback.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
Use the scrum framework
Scrum is a framework for agile project management.
The main concept is a daily review for the whole team.
Each team member answers three questions.
First, what did you work on yesterday and what is the progress?
Second, what is in the way of you completing your work.
Third, what you are working on today?
This is a proven process that the top software companies in the world employ.
Brian Greenberg,True Blue Life Insurance
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Focus on proper documentation
Fifty percent of software development is specifying what needs to be coded.
Rahul Varshneya,CurveBreak
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Keep it bite-sized
Smaller projects are much easier to estimate as a team, so keep things bite-sized.
We work in two-week sprints, estimating user stories together before theyre assigned to a sprint.
This helps avoid unknown unknowns and enforce realistic estimates.
Pete Kistler,BrandYourself
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Blair Williams,MemberPress
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We use Asana to assign tasks, so everyone knows what theyre responsible for.
Slack is used to create channels around communicating how projects are performed.
Zoom is used to video chat when chatting via Slack isnt effective enough.
When you have the right tools, everything goes smoother.
Jared Atchison,WPForms
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Plus, your team will feel more accomplished every time they reach a mini-goal.
Stephanie Wells,Formidable Forms
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Syed Balkhi,WPBeginner
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By having weekly meetings, you’re free to check that everyone is on track.
John Turner,SeedProd LLC
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Thats why creating a communication plan before starting a project is crucial.
Thomas Griffin,OptinMonster
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Pictures of the user interface, even hand-drawn ones, communicate scope more accurately than most documents.
Then ask the team to define how they get from pictures to reports.
Monica Snyder,Birdsong
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We use Asana for project management to get everyone on the same page.
Developers, designers and account managers and SEO meet in person weekly for debriefs on projects and status updates.
Teams also work in-office for certain projects to avoid miscommunication.
Matthew Capala,Alphametic
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Map out the project visually
Communicate the entire process with the team in a visual way.
Have the team look it over before they begin and give them time to ask any questions they have.
Diego Orjuela,Cables & Sensors
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