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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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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

Different ways of working are better suited to different industries and business sizes, so it’s crucial to consider these sorts of things before you begin hiring or go to market. From different software systems to overall philosophies, there are many ways that business strategies can inform the way you run your company.

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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? Do you have a spec?

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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. This system naturally lends itself to a pipeline approach, which the product manager organizes. So the product manager winds up actually having to use the software, by hand, updating the spec and helping create a new test plan.

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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. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due.

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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 talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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.