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People confuse open-source and free software because they think they are equivalent, and this is not so. Free software usually includes open source, although this is only sometimes the case. Don't worry; I'll make it clear now.

Just a few years ago, I had zero experience in IT project management. I spent a decade in the hospitality industry, developing projects for cafes, bars, restaurants, hotels, and travel agencies.

But I recently took on managing an IT project as part of my role here at JetRockets. I led a team in developing a new website for our company.

Quality Assurance can feel like an afterthought. After all, QA alone doesn’t build applications. It just makes them better.

As a result, many development teams think they can cut corners by doing QA themselves. It is tempting to think that professional QA testers are an unaffordable luxury, and that no one could possibly know how to improve your code better than yourself.

A Minimum Viable Product, or MVP, has one goal: collecting information. An MVP is a basic prototype you build to determine what your market wants.

But entrepreneurs often get the wrong idea and think their MVP is something it is not. In most cases, it won’t make very much money at all. Instead, it will show you how you can solidify your business model to make money in the future.

Leadership is an intangible skill, and that makes it hard to describe. What makes an effective team leader can’t be captured in a short definition. The needs and goals of leadership vary across time, industry, and department.