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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Planning Poker is a technique recommended as part of the broader SCRUM software development framework. If you are not using SCRUM, I highly recommend using it as your baseline. One simple and relatively cheap thing you can do to reduce the bugs that make it to the live product is to hire a manual QA tester.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Create a P/C/S Document. One way to remain on the same page at all times is to plead your case by conjuring up a problem/cost/solution document that overviews the importance of the task or item at hand. These documents will help both teams better understand each topic and will help with the prioritization process.

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Generation Agile: 10 Tips How To Lead Effectively A Newly Outsourced Development Team

YoungUpstarts

Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology, with Jira, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Project, being the most popular tool to be used in Agile project management. Less documentation and planning are involved at the start but the project incrementally grows in this approach. . Agile is here to stay.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. Hire those you trust. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. legal issues.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. If you’re working on important documents and don’t want to get spelling wrong (especially if you’re working in the cloud), this handy extension is for you. This tool will suit a wide variety of businesses.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

At the end of last year, a document was published that described how Spotify works using a decentralized approach of tribes and squads. So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” Since then, the article stuck with me. That works very well.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

For starters, theres whole volumes that need to be written about how to actually find and hire the people your startup needs. But most startups succeed in hiring, one way or another, and are still left with the problems of organizing the people that rapid growth brings in. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.