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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

If you couldn’t make it, here are some interesting insights based on conversations we had and exhibits we visited. If a technology makes sense on the roadmap, make sure it can also deliver quality software that people will want to use today. Engineer the experience so you can evolve the product.

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

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.”

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. So, while your post is a good summary (of things that cant be learned quickly. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!