VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

You see it when a Scrum team is frustrated because they have multiple product owners to deal with, or when product managers have to constantly fight for resources that keep disappearing. The key is not to drive the product structure around the engineering teams, but rather to work together with engineering to move together into alignment.

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SCRUM Product Architecture Technical Review 63

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. The great design firm IDEO has the likes of structural engineers working side-by-side with journalists, software developers and surgeons to produce the next generation shopping cart. The trick is knowing how and when.

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Management SCRUM Cofounder Software Developers 139

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. There are departmental heads, such as the Head of Engineering of which we have two who take care of different parts of that field, and others that look after their respective departments. Those who write the software operate it themselves.

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Software Review Agile Analytics SCRUM 146

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. No more, no less.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. A close mapping between your software architecture and your team architecture will be a big help here.

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Developer Database Architecture API 92

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created. I have been able to successfully scale three different software development service centers offshore. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. But thatâ??s

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 74

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Quora Spaces. Twitter moments.

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SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. My favorite instance of this is scheduling software. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

No engineering team. But where it makes sense, that team may also include engineers building new experiments or prototypes to try with customers. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. You need a problem team and a solution team."

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. agile software development. (46). software development. (47).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The VP Engineering spends all of his time trying to make sure the programmers understand and implement the spec. So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan. Each iteration takes longer than the previous one. Frustration is mounting.

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San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. So the team got to work.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. This reverses the standard intuition about what engineering activities add value, which usually concludes that test coverage is a form of necessary waste but a refactoring is value-added work. These kinds of design are mostly orthogonal.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’ Obviously anybody that’s popular, that’s some of it, but, you know, it’s not a fundamental part of your business engine. So you’re going to need another engine.

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SVPG

AUGUST 20, 2012

In my last article I talked about one technique for applying Scrum concepts to product discovery – the opportunity backlog. This is at the heart of Scrum as a method, and is especially well suited to delivery because of our critical need to have frequent, consistent release vehicles. Time-limiting is what we did in Waterfall.

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SCRUM Product Design Engineer 62

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The blog software thinks Im spam, so if you want to find us, go to "build a sandcastle dot com" Sherlie Matthews (2010-06-19) # I need desperate help in revamping my website, self-built many years ago with Dreamweaver. Click on my name for the link.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84