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Digital Twin: sandbox testing for approaching innovation with less risk
When an organization decides to hire a contractor to build a software tool, usually the relationship begins with a meeting, in which representatives of both organizations go over some version of the following: The client elaborates on their needs The... -
Keys to a successful project handover
In the early stages of any startup’s life, energy runs high, while resources are scarce. Many of those resources are money related, of course, but time is also a big one. One of the founder’s main missions at the onset of a company is to find a healt... -
Building a tech team in 2022
As we have explained in a previous blogpost, service-based businesses are typically characterized by a pendular cycle, and the processes of hiring and selling sit at opposite ends of this cycle: the more projects we sell, the more people we need on t... -
The virtuous cycle: thoughts and lessons on sustainability
Imagine you build an organization and set a goal to have it dismantled two years later. That way, you can approach business however you want. As there is a predetermined end date, there is no risk. Either things go astronomically well or catastrophic... -
The Product Marketing Engineer: birth of a new kind of software engineering
This article stems from a conversation that we come back to from time to time. A conversation around the idea that software engineering is changing, and it increasingly requires that teams have a deep understanding of the business side of things as m... -
What ‘high quality code’ means: philosophy, praxis and examples
Imagine you knew the materials destined to build homes and vehicles were flawed. Would you still build with them? Or if you knew that the ingredients that will go in your food were spoiled. Would you still eat them? The quality of the building blocks... -
How can we design software to handle complexity?
You’ve probably heard about the so-called “blame game” unleashed in the UK after news surfaced that the authorities failed to report nearly 16,000 positive COVID-19 cases. You’ve probably also heard that this was “caused by an Excel spreadsheet conta... -
You are asking for the wrong thing
Most proposals for a tech project share a problem: they consist of a few introductory sections dropping credentials, a list of scope gathered from conversations with the customer, a table with budget, a timeline with deliveries. The problem is that t... -
Speed and sustainability: will your go-kart pass the test?
A go-kart is a type of open-wheel car or quadracycle. They come in all shapes and sizes, from very simple models often made with scrap wood and ball-bearings, all the way to high-powered racing machines. While the simpler go-karts are gravity propell... -
Building bridges: our approach at product design
The design of a product can be thought of as building a bridge: our initial problem is that we need to get from point A to point B, and there is something in the way that prevents us from simply walking to the other side. However, it is important to... -
Screwed up
The names Robertson, Allen, Parker, Philips and Goodwin may not mean anything to you, but they all played a part in building the world you live in. No, they’re not the members of some 70s band that inspired any sort of social or musical movement, and... -
On the meaning of unconventional
On the meaning of unconventional A new kind of approach to tackle new kinds of problems If you go to Manas.Tech, you can find an easter egg by hovering on the word ‘unconventional’. That word is a big influence on everything we do, including but not... -
Nikola Motor Company: Crystal powered dashboards on the trucks of the future
Nikola Motor Company is on a mission to transform and disrupt the transportation industry on a global scale, and Crystal is powering their software. They design and manufacture both Battery-electric (BEV) and Hydrogen fuel-cell (FCEV) vehicles, vehic... -
Genome analysis powered by Crystal
Diploid is a company based in Leuven, Belgium, who provides services and software to hospitals and labs for diagnosing rare diseases using clinical genome analysis. What makes Diploid so interesting is that they developed Moon, the first software pac... -
What is a Career Garden and why you need one
A couple of weeks ago, Nico sat down with the whole Manas team, and presented the model he had been working on for the past few months: the Career Garden. So, what exactly is a Career Garden? It’s a kind of multidimensional distribution of roles and... -
What reviews are really for, and how to have one that actually helps
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. — Bruce Lee Any organization that aims to someday become a great one has an untold and unwritten mission: to keep up with what’s going around it and, I believe more importantly, with what’s goin...