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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

Founder Developer Gap and A, B, C Players By the way, this question is another example of issues around the Founder Developer Gap. Developers operate at a level and in a language that others in the organization can’t necessarily interpret and understand. So, it’s often hard to know if the developer is an A, B or C player.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

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The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. For example? He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product. Machinima’s example? Everyone reports updates and obstacles.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

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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. The fact is, developers operate in a world that outsiders can’t easily understand. Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. For example it includes the following kinds of things that a CTO should be addressing, but that may not be part of the expectation, time allocation, etc. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build?

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