Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.) English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This reverses the standard intuition about what engineering activities add value, which usually concludes that test coverage is a form of necessary waste but a refactoring is value-added work. From this holistic viewpoint, we can optimize accordingly.
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VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
“Industry Week” recently commented on how the impact of globalization on supply chain networks has made supply chain management increasingly complex. “A See Also: How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen, and Scrum. Some of those vendors may be overseas, which is why having a backup stateside is essential.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. Their offices are shuttered, all these facilities are shuttered. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.
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.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Be succinct.
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