SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2013
No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. How strong is product management? It''s hard to manage a development team when you are not very technical.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 16, 2010
I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. No one owns architecture.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I learned they were good at high-level architecture design but had clearly been doing only that for a really long time. What percent of your time do you spend head-down coding versus managing or scoping product or talking to customers?
blog.socaltech.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2010
My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). Why do I say that?
www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Strategic Report to the CEO or board as an active part of the senior management team. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. The role necessitates a hands-on approach, with periodic on-call responsibility.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.
www.joelonsoftware.com
MARCH 24, 2010
Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.
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