Cofounder Global SCRUM Washington 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 6, 2008
The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. I think that if a web founder would come to me asking for an investment talking about how he's coding an immensly scalable, perfectly designed system, I will throw him out in an instant.
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