Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. We have a long history and so new employees have to spend a long time getting up to speed on the why, what, and how of everything that we do. Over a thousand people work here now.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development?
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