Launching Focussist Landing Page - An Upcoming Agile Project Management Tool

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:04:55 +0000

Over the past few years as I gain more and more experience in not only building software and products but also in leading teams and projects, I realised that my desire of wanting an agile tool that’s super simple to use yet super flexible to adapt to different needs has grown stronger and stronger.

Given the COVID-19 situation that’s going on at the moment, I’ve finally decided to spend a few nights working on a pitch deck for myself to validate the value proposition, and some high level wireframes to visualise the ideas.

Over the weekend I’ve put together a landing page to “market” my ideas. It’s a quick job, but the underlying thinking has been on the back of my mind for years now.

Introducing Focussist, or rather Focussist’s landing page: Focussist.com.

Please check it out and give me your feedback, and don’t forget to sign up. ;)

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On Hiring: Use Kanban for Managing Candidates and the Hiring Process

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000

Hiring is usually a long and difficult process - in order to streamline and simply it, I use Kanban to manage the whole process. I believe, hiring should be as lean and agile as our development process.

My Kanban board for hiring (we just started hiring at SitePoint!):

Using a Kanban board offers a number of advantages:

a clear picture of the candidates with their feedback from code tests and interviews
a straightforward view of where a candidate is at in the hiring process
limited number of candidates in some stages to prevent chaos
visual reminders to get in touch with the candidates, it’s always a good idea to keep them in the loop
a tight WIP limit for shortlisted candidates, there’s no point to shortlist too many candidates

What do you think?

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Launching Focussist Landing Page - An Upcoming Agile Project Management Tool

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