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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

For us, this means using best of breed cloud hosted services like Adobe Connect and Kaltura , taking advantage of the best open source applications that run the Internet like Apache and MongoDB , and building our own proprietary cloud-hosted tools when appropriate on great platforms like Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.

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CEO of TaskTop’s Book Introduces Flow Framework to Address Why DevOps/Agile Not Enough

Hearpreneur

Before Tasktop, I spent a decade building open source software development tools. The feeling of delivering value to and through a community of developers at the pace of an open source software project was exhilarating. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help clients?

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

“Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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Cloud Is The New Black

YoungUpstarts

by Guilherme Sesterhein, CSM and software development/Google area leader at ilegra. Guilherme Sesterhein is a CSM and software development/Google area leader at ilegra. I heard “cloud is the new black” during a training session inside a Google’s office. But why did they say it? Gartner did.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday. PCF integrates an expansive set of critical, modern software technologies to provide a turnkey cloud-native platform.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Allow me to be brutally clear: the more our clients' budgets go to Amazon or Rackspace, the less budget goes to continued development time.

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