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How Software Developers Can Be Set Up For Failure

YoungUpstarts

The outright and abject failure of a software development project is a surprisingly common occurrence, and the reasons for a specific project’s failure tend to revolve around three easily avoidable mistakes. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations.

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Startup Software Developers

SoCal CTO

There’s quite a bit of truth to what Mark is saying about startup software developers, but my guess is that there’s another reason that it seems harder to find developers in this context. So, likely quite a few of the people who were seeking startup developers were looking to find people for very low dollars.

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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. Iterate until you have a stable definition.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

It was definitely surprising," said Ashish Kuthiala, Electric Cloud’s director of marketing. When I was a software engineer, I remember losing time to meetings when I’d rather be coding. Others may have, well, other pastimes. (As As in this iconic XKCD comic , for instance.)

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

But OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is letting ChatGPT reach out and interact with other applications through an API (an Application Programming Interface.) First, you should definitely care. Should you care? Should you worry?

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