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The Startup Lifecycle: How To Win At Each Stage

The Product Coalition

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. And if it doesn’t fit, they know how to make it fit. You need to hire a team, obtain office space, and start creating a buzz about your company.

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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

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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Choosing the Right Software Development Partner (with or without an RFP), Part 1: Evaluating Longevity

Atomic Spin PM

Finding the right custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget, and frustrating. Making useful, valuable software products takes a lot more than technical know-how. So how do you find a firm that has all these skills?

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The Unintentional Career of John Cutler

Mind the Product

He writes, he tweets, he regularly speaks at conferences, and with 31,000 Twitter followers (not to mention 26,000 followers to his Medium blog ), he’s a prolific and consistent voice in the study and development of the product management craft. You have to think about how to empower everyone around you.”.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?

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Best-rated Sacramento Web Design Companies to Work With in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

We are confident you know how to spend it effectively and where your business needs you the most. These questions will help you better understand what offers are available on the market and how to find, assess and pick the most suitable Sacramento web design firm. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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When to Declare Backlog Bankruptcy

ProductPlan

I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. Every organization doing agile software development does it a little bit differently. Feature request?