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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. CTO Founder – Do they really still need a technical advisor? Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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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. This raises the difficulty of finding the top software engineers for a business given that many are bootstrapped and some are sponsored. Establishing requirements.

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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

While the new approach recently arose from Silicon Valley, the model knows no geographic, cultural or technical boundaries. Pioneer is basically a search engine for underrated talent. Commercializing ideas goes far beyond technology. But there’s a new model on the horizon for sourcing and scaling big ideas.

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5 Factors Determining Success or Failure in the Shift From Project to Product

Planview

Five years ago, Planview CTA Mik Kersten outlined the “turning point” in his bestselling book, Project to Product: How to Thrive and Survive in the Age of Software with the Flow Framework. Without this commitment, consequences include slow delivery and increased technical debt.

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The Engineering Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

The Engineering Stakeholder Interview. Engineering stakeholders. Try to speak with engineering management as well as the design engineer(s), if such a role exists; it’s seldom a good idea to involve the entire engineering team at this point. Programmers and engineers may initially be wary of designers.

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The characteristics of data-driven business model development and how to succeed

The BMI Lab Blog

Facebook , the social network platform, offers a wide variety of user data anonymously to third-party providers and software development companies. Tip: It is important that the company obtains external technical expertise as early as possible to increase flexibility and build up know-how internally.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. And other problems stemmed from UX practitioners feeling disconnected from the daily life of the development teams they supported.

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