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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features. Over a thousand people work here now.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. After college, I spent years working in software engineering and data analysis incorporate, but I was never satisfied. Photo Credit: Scott Harris.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Ditto for Apple. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams.