Engineer Hiring Metrics SCRUM 
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
SMBs no longer have to choose between hiring an in-house data science team or off the shelf enterprise analytics software. Start by identifying every method you currently have of collecting information, including marketing data, website metrics, feedback collection and analysis procedures. In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.
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The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” Engineers are not forced to share or reuse code, so there is no central framework that everyone must use.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
No engineering team. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too."
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 6, 2008
For starters, theres whole volumes that need to be written about how to actually find and hire the people your startup needs. But most startups succeed in hiring, one way or another, and are still left with the problems of organizing the people that rapid growth brings in. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.
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.
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