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How To Hire Scrum For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

This waterfall methodology follows a few consecutive steps, including analysis, designing, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. So, when you build software, it is almost like building a house of cards. Second is that you really can’t make any changes to your code phase. We use SCRUM. Startups and SCRUM.

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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am part of a mastermind group of 4 entrepreneurs. ” As the only technical founder of the group, I could offer some suggestions regarding the software development aspect. In the software development world, you can look at techniques like the Planning Poker. Peer review. Internal product demos. Post-production.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Each specialist takes up his part of the spec (UI, middleware, backend) and cranks out code. So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan. In exchange, the team agrees to show each piece of working code to the product manager for his approval.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.