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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

TechCrunch

We’ve gone from a minimum viable product to scaling on enterprise partners, so we are going to do a huge push in hiring, which is something we were not doing before, so we can build out things so that more customers can be onboarded,” she added.

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AoAD2 Practice: Adaptive Planning

James Shore

One way to think about your first release is to think in terms of a “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP). Contrary to the common understanding of this term, an MVP isn’t the smallest product you can successfully ship. Instead, it’s a way of validating your product ideas. Imagine you’re an evil despot on a tight schedule.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Software engineering productivity cant be measured. The question of measuring productivity is a famous one, and the best minds in the industry have concluded it cant be done. Martin Fowler wrote an article in 2003 titled Cannot Measure Productivity. Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity?