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 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.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
That’s why when you hear Steve Blank talk about lean startups you can hear his experiences ooze out of him in real-life examples of 8 startups. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 3, 2013
[and of course I use "we" loosely as the hard work of course was the entire MyTime team sans me]. It got quite good reviews in the media: TechCrunch , LifeHacker & PandoDaily and many others. The team has put in a huge effort to get to this day – and I hope they’re sleeping well tonight.
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. 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. Review the code being built.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 14, 2010
Let me give you an example. To do the right activities you need to start with a top down assessment with what you’re trying to achieve with your marketing. If you don’t know WHY you’re adding features don’t do it just because you have a development team. Similar with product features.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Even though we are both startup guys, and I've got an inner geek, and started developing and coding myself, at this point in the relationship, both from a functional and personality point of view we actually complement each other very well. My brother is in charge of the development team, and is very focused on development and coding.
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. We don’t know just how often this occurs, but judging from the calls we get there are lots of anecdotal examples. ” Really?
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