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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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Does Scrum Apply To All Types Of Projects?

The Startup Magazine

It’s a regular question googled in relation to the adaption of scrum methodology, and still people are confused whether to implement it in their projects. All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. Articrafts: Product backlog, Sprint backlog.

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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

OKRs can be beneficial for managers as well since they enable you to conduct each team member’s performance review based on their overall quarterly objectives and key results. One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced.

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

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. Give those teams the resources they need to be successful — both in business development and tech personnel. Their answers are below.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD).

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

Industry/Domain Knowledge (10) - What is the product owner’s knowledge of the industry and domain? Product Knowledge (10) - What is the level of knowledge of the product owner’s product? Technology Knowledge (8) - What is the level of knowledge of the underlying technology?

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