MARTYHAUGHT

Product Development, UX and QA in Small Teams

In the early years of my software career, I worked in larger organizations where we had different groups of developers along with non-technical teams working collectively inside formal processes. Imagine some form of waterfall process where you had an architect group backed by business analysts, multiple teams of software engineers, and a quality assurance team all watched over by a group of project managers. It was slow and inefficient at delivering the software that business needed. During the late 90s and early 2000s, it was all I knew.

Fast forward a decade later and now I exclusively work in small, cross-functional teams that are fully self-contained. We ship software lightning fast, can react to change requirements overnight and are incredibly efficient.