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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower Innovation

Why do this without the right technical advisor? Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. Actually, many startups need two kinds of technical advisors. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower Innovation

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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Calculating the Six Hidden Costs of Waste in Software Development 

Planview

Misaligned Work Misaligned work occurs when tasks are not directly aligned with an organization’s highest priorities, often due to unclear communication or poor understanding of these priorities. How to reduce this type of waste To reduce excessive work in progress (WIP), setting WIP limits may not be enough.

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Guidelines For Hiring the Best Software Developers

The Human Factor

Whatever industrial sector your startup works in, there’s a good likelihood that technology has to be integrated firmly in your fundamental business strategy. All companies are now fundamentally tech companies, and employing software engineers is now a crucial task that greatly affects a startup’s long-term performance.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

I reached out to seventy colleagues and received detailed responses from twenty UX professionals (including interaction designers, user researchers, and visual designers) who were actively supporting Scrum development teams. “One of my teams has a lot of ideas and contributes a lot to the UX of the product.

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How to Build Your Culture of Human-Centered Innovation

Inceodia

Even worse than company failures are the people, the employees who discovered and diligently pursued great ideas only to have them ignored. If you’re not familiar with the Kodak failure, Steven Sasson , an engineer at Kodak developed the first digital camera in 1975. How to Make Human Centered Innovation Work for You.

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