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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

However, for those who werent able to get in (or are real gluttons for punishment), I will be speaking the night before at a free event hosted by The Vancouver Ruby/Rails/Merb Meetup Group. April 21 - Agile Vancouver is sold-out (thank you all so much!). It will be a more-technical version of the Expo talk. You can register here.

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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. In programming, when a class or sourcefile gets to big, the solution is to break it down into smaller pieces. Don’t do that stuff. The same principle holds for scaling a development organization.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. You sound like a great client to deal with for a programming company. Bless you, chile!

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. 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. Rails (Ruby). open source framework for Ruby. Ruby cloud platform.Rails deployment made easy. Banana Scrum â??