Development Team Review Hiring Lean Software Review 
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. While the appearance matters, remember you are hiring the development firm primarily for its development skills, not its graphic design skills.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 8, 2016
As awe-inspiring as living on a remote tropical island sounds, there may not even be electricity between certain times of day due to rotating power scheduling whereby a town only receives electricity for a few hours daily. Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. Lean on locals.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Even worse, when it comes time to "fix it right" the team gets pushback from the business leaders, who want more features. If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. Was it a case of needing Homework?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties.
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