Cost Distribution Engineer SCRUM 
Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
There is an ample supply of labor; a relative scarcity of challenging, career-building jobs for recent graduates of technical institutes and universities; and a dramatically lower cost structure for many initiatives as a result. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.
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Scalable Startup
JANUARY 15, 2015
Work directly with engineers, no company involved. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. However, did you also know that it costs your company money when you encounter zero inventory counts? So, how are these two cost categories broken down?
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.
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