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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. I’ve used some local and some offshore resources and avoided larger outsourcing companies. I have been able to successfully scale three different software development service centers offshore.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy. Development teams working with these unknowns will often introduce "spikes" into the product backlog to complete discovery work and remove risks. Email This BlogThis!

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

David Teten

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. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. There is some benefit to having the programmers know where you want to take your minimum viable product in the future.