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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Some startups, on reaching this stage, declare “we’ve got to grow up and act like a real company now” and immediately try to switch to heavy-handed tactics. Don’t do that stuff. Specialization.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Google Custom Search Engine. Rails (Ruby). Mockingbird. Google Apps.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

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. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

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. I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Find a senior engineer, take them out to lunch, pick their brain.