Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. cared about the feature set. If you’re a startup – fix this.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk. Last year, Stephanie Hay and Leah Busque both talked about Lean Startupping their marketing processes.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.
femgineer.com
JULY 18, 2010
Femgineer Coder. HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products. Remember people only have two hands!
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2009
So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. Neither is true – they just have their incentives all messed up. You can’t change the underlying incentives of this situation by getting better at any one activity.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
The kids running amok within Quora (the website) insist on the quasi-fascist myth of the 10x developer who single-handedly is more productive than a whole bunch of incompetent coders (you can imagine the environment they come from.) When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 6, 2004
I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. While the number of coders may go down in an IT department, there will be ample opportunity for developers to move up the value chain into design, architecture, and product management.
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