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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. A close mapping between your software architecture and your team architecture will be a big help here. Don’t do that stuff. Early on, specialists are rarely desirable.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language.