VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc. This bill will NOT affect our company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. And I remember, we set up a war room that we managed, we met twice a day. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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