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

TechCrunch

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. How is your team structured?

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. How do I measure productivity? Its not about literally being the best product engineering org in the world. Not possible. Lets dig in.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Stealth recruiting, virtual sales kickoffs, Google Cloud’s Q4

TechCrunch

Traditionally, companies hold in-person sales kickoffs (SKOs) in January and February to network, educate sales teams about new products and devise strategies for the year ahead. One recent survey of sales and marketing professionals found that only half of respondents said they were likely to attend an event in H1 2022.

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Exploration to elimination: CIO road map for adaptive technology portfolios

CIO

Yet, according to IDC’s March 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 , 60% of organizations consider their digital infrastructure spending poorly aligned with expected business results. Use minimum viable products (MVPs) to validate concepts.

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Product Development Process: How to Bring Innovation to Life

Altexsoft

This article will guide you through all the steps of a new product development (NPD) process and give you some insights into implementing best practices en route from a pure idea to roll-out and selling. What is a new product development process? Put together, these efforts compose a new product development (NPD) process.

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How to Accurately Estimate Cost-to-Build: An App and Software Development Budgeting Guide

Praxent

How to Accurately Estimate Cost-to-Build: An App and Software Development Budgeting Guide. Accurate software development cost estimations are critical to staying within budget on any project–if an estimate shoots too low, a business could end up with a piece of software that can’t pay for itself, or remains completely unfinished.

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Software Outsourcing: Why CEOs Love It

Gorilla Logic

It turns out that access to talented developers may be one of the most challenging pieces of the puzzle. . KPMG reports that 67 percent of tech leaders struggle to find the right tech talent, and 22 percent of organizations surveyed by Coding Sans ranked increasing development capacity as their top challenge. Let’s talk.