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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

I was one of four leaders of an enormous failed development project at Wells Fargo around 2007. Can you expand on the idea of “leadership for agility” — are you talking particularly about agile software development, or can this model be applied to other endeavors, other enterprises? The post [Interview] Michael K.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level. Accounting?

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? agile software development. (46). software development. (47).

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). And as one commenter said, we have many logging frameworks and that seems silly except that I can still think of ways to improve them and I think people who have the time should. Or are they?

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). And as one commenter said, we have many logging frameworks and that seems silly except that I can still think of ways to improve them and I think people who have the time should. Or are they?

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.