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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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How to Hire a Remote Software Development Team

ReadWriteStart

Hence, this article will explore the concept of remote software development teams, their advantages, and how they differ from dedicated teams while providing a step-by-step guide on building your own remote dream team. What is a Remote Software Development Team? Now, let’s delve in. Incredible, right?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Is this person a CTO or a developer? By the way, do you know that most development teams use peer review of code to help ensure good development practices.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? Avoid them. How do they handle testing?

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

Both Sides of the Table

People are genetically programmed to negotiate anyways. Your IT Reviewer. They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” No earn outs?

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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?