The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Stage 1: Bring In The Consultants Partnering with the right consultant during the ideation phase of your startup has several crucial benefits. They know market trends and whether or not your product fits. At this stage, it’s time to call in the experts. They know best practices.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

By anticipating the trends in our three addressable markets, investing heavily in R&D, playing the long game with our uniquely efficient GTM model, and staying true to our values, Atlassian is delivering a metric tonne of value. Marty Hagewood, a software development manager at EMC Insurance Companies, experienced this first-hand.

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Split

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“It became clear to us from the beginning that we had to find ways to give each team a space to organize their flags and prevent teams from stepping on each other’s toes when it comes to managing feature flags. ” – Patricio Echague , Co-founder & CTO, Split Software. DON’T: Treat all flags the same.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is the second post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. This is not the same as specializing in a certain software language/tool/technology. Being flexible across technologies means my partner’s team can use the best tools to help me meet my goals.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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