YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. It’s a great time to be a developer. Their conclusion? percent over the past year.
TechEmpower
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The Founder-Developer Gap and A, B, C Players The challenges that business leaders face when assessing development teams are a good example of the Founder-Developer Gap.
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SoCal CTO
JULY 23, 2012
I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?
SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2013
I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. One of your better developers leaves.
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a web developer to continue work on my website.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 16, 2010
I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. No communication between developers.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? And it’s certainly not Customer Development.
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