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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. In fact, they are passionate about automating testing overall.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. In the world of agile development I believe that rapid output of code and the ability to constantly make changes trumps having a few extra bodies at a cheaper rate.