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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

Entire conversations would take place when the CTO and I were in China whilst the CMO/designer was left to catch up hours later through chat or a rehashed conversation. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator.

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Why Successful Product Management Involves More Than Spectacular Specs

YoungUpstarts

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Sound familiar?

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Wille (2010-06-20) # I would say that the "User Story" template format of writing requirements pushed by the Scrum Agile methodology is the way to go, as it chunks functionality in a common, easily overviewable format with a common language. Id outsource security and performance testing to an external company.