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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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Recruiting Software Developers – Coding Tests

Henrik Warne

In all cases, one or more coding tests were included. I have also been on the interviewing side, evaluating a coding test. Are coding tests needed? When I started out as a software developer, nobody did coding tests as far as I know. Problems With Coding Tests. Here are my thoughts on the process.

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Finding a New Software Developer Job

Henrik Warne

For the first time ever, I was laid off, and had to find a new software developer job. It’s quite good, but I didn’t use it much, because I wanted to make sure I did all coding by myself at interviews. In it I wrote down things to think about before an interview, in a format that is easy to review quickly.

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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower CTO

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development? What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process? How do they handle testing?

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How AI and ML Can Accelerate and Optimize Software Development and Testing

Speaker: Eran Kinsbruner, Best-Selling Author, TechBeacon Top 30 Test Automation Leader & the Chief Evangelist and Senior Director at Perforce Software

It's no secret that CTOs need to have a full understanding if they want to be successful, but does that make them responsible for developer productivity? While advancements in software development and testing have come a long way, there is still room for improvement.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting. Here are a few related articles we’ve run in recent weeks: Growth marketing.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. That’s what we call an AI software engineering agent.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. How data-driven performance reviews do that.