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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower

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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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

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. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built. Is this person a CTO or a developer? By the way, do you know that most development teams use peer review of code to help ensure good development practices.

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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

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[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.

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Parabol Picks Up $4M For Software Tools

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Parabol , a startup developing software management tools, used to manage the efforts of development teams, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The company's software helps development teams manage their processes, and is focused on Agile development processes.

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Everybody Wants Their Pound of Flesh (Negotiating with Buyers)

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Your IT Reviewer. They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department).