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Making the case for IVP: Initial viable product

TechCrunch

Explaining that it’s just your minimum viable product (MVP) and it’s not ready yet is sometimes fine, but I’ve seen many times where that’s the dealbreaker in itself. My concept of the initial viable product (IVP) isn’t just a hyperiterated MVP. It’s the first truly viable product you choose to launch.

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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

More specifically, Solwey provides consulting in all stages of software design and development strategy and execution. Currently, we have eight full-time developers, a DevOps manager and our Chief Operating Officer Nima [Kargah-Ostadi] who has a Ph.D. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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Budgeting and planning for your first digital product

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Functional minimum viable product. Funded development. < Many variables impact these product development costs. Although you don’t need to learn to code, you should strive to understand how design, technology and development interact. A production-level product capable of scaling your user base.

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Can AI solve your technical debt problem?

CIO

Smarter testing snuffs out debt hopefully before it starts Some developers are thinking bigger when it comes to applying AI tools to tech debt tasks. Take unit testing, for instance: an important tool for producing high-quality code that doesnt add tech debt but is often neglected in the race to deliver a minimum viable product.

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What is technical debt? A business risk IT must manage

CIO

While the term technical debt found its origins in software development, the concept is applicable to a wide range of IT implementations and operations beyond custom code. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unfactored implementation, object-oriented or otherwise.

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4 practical steps for using no-code to evolve your prototype to an MVP

TechCrunch

What’s more, we are facing a global talent shortage that further puts pressure on an already constrained software developer pool. No-code development tools could not have come at a better time.

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Massdriver wants to abstract away infrastructure to let devs focus on coding

TechCrunch

Modern DevOps turned back the clock on agile software development. Despite competition from Upbound and Humanitec, the company has around 100 developers across 35 organizations managing over 80 compute environments, and plans to expand its 11-person workforce within the next month. ”