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For the sake of productivity, developers need to learn to say “no”

The Next Web

Whoever coined the mantra ‘The customer is always right’ has never tried to undertake development tasks for clients with grandiose ideas, but zero technical background. Nowadays, every company might be a software company, but not everyone knows how to effectively manage software development projects.

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Eight Key Problems Every Startup Should Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

View from Seed

That lets you learn the flaws in your design much earlier. Does that inform everything from the start, or does it come in after you’ve identified a problem to solve with a product you’ll build? For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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8 Clues that Your Business Honeymoon May be Over

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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5 Simple Ways (And Tools) To Improve Product Development

YFS Magazine

As with product development of any kind, process design is often the most difficult (yet most valuable) part of your project.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. After the talk typically 5-20 people want to chat one-on-one.