Totango

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The agile approach is borrowed from the software development industry, where it is used to optimize collaboration between development teams and clients. Standardize your documentation approach by developing a requirements template. Agile CS goals should be quantified in terms of measurable objectives and benchmarks.

Innovation 96

Innovation Customer Success Scale Government 96

Audacix

DECEMBER 3, 2022

But in the long run it will pay for you to try and build a culture of security in your software development team so that your investment in tools, processes and people keeps paying dividends in the long term. Cloud platform scanning, technically referred to as CIS benchmarking, is the next step in protecting your cloud platform.

Cloud 52

Cloud Software SaaS Software Development 52

User Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Evaluate product performance: Based on the analysis, you have to make regular product evaluations to assess its performance against predetermined benchmarks and goals. Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), such as Visual Studio Code, PyCharm, and RStudio Jira Roadmap by Jira.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Data Analysis Technical Review Software Review 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 27, 2023

For example, if your sales team uses benchmarks to sell the product, you could develop a website or video resource that allows users to get familiar with the data on their own. Offer a self-service experience wherever possible If it works, the self-service model is always more cost-effective than traditional sales processes.

Enterprise 105

Enterprise Business Scale Customer Lifetime Value 105

The SaaS Garage

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Led by General Catalyst Partners, with participation from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Balderton Capital, and Point Nine Capital, the round puts the total funding raised to date to $45 million. Building a modern business means building software, and the way software is built changed dramatically.

Software Development 61

Software Development Benchmarks Finance Enterprise 61

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2013

I’m ignoring software development costs and opportunity costs to develop features that may not impact PQL and sales performance directly.) For product and eng teams, PQLs provide a rigorous framework for prioritizing development. PQLs are powerful because they are “free”, scalable, and highly qualified.

Outbound Sales Team 108

Outbound Sales Team Benchmarks Advertising Engineering 108

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For folks who are thinking about the utility of these generative AI tools that you’re building for things other than software development, this notion of flow state is a useful thing to consider. Quantitative benchmarks like GLUE and SUPERGLUE have long been used as standardized measures of AI model performance.

Artificial Intelligence 137

Artificial Intelligence AI Scale ChatGPT 137

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2018

For example, your email to a veteran IT director with 30 years of experience in the manufacturing field shouldn’t sound the same as the one you send to an up-and-coming software developer. Nearly 70 percent of companies that came up short neglected such research, according to Cintell’s 2016 B2B benchmark study. DON’T: Overdo it.

Scale 68

Scale Marketing Sales Hiring Benchmarks 68

Audacix

AUGUST 22, 2022

It's one of the last steps on your journey to building a culture of security within your software development team. At least annual CIS benchmarking via cloud console penetration testing services. Think of SOC 2 certification as more of a stamp of approval once all your various security structures are in place.

Software Review 75

Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review Software 75

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Development velocity: I don’t know if (or how strictly) you should use a software development methodology like Scrum, which allows you to nicely visualize your development velocity, in the very early days, when you’re maybe just two developers – I would be very interested in your thoughts on that question.

Scale 190

Scale Startup SaaS Customer Lifetime Value 190

Mattermark

AUGUST 16, 2017

We offer competitive salaries, a flexible work schedule, unlimited vacation, medical/dental/vision benefits, and the overflowing gratitude of software development teams around the world. In their own words: We are a geographically-distributed team headquartered in the Union Square neighborhood of NYC.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Benchmarks Software Development Engineering 40

CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. At right, here’s a picture of the benchmark for a hypothetical manufacturing company. Read more about this in my prior post.

DevOps as a Service 130

DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Scale Benchmarks 130

Audacix

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I say "unfortunately", not only because this manner of software delivery leads to frustrated users and high churn, but also because costs balloon and you end up scratching your head, having to read articles like this one. Think of it this way: software testing is to a great user experience, what software design is to software development.

Outsourcing Services 40

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Software Delivery 40

User Pilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

This is different from traditional waterfall project management, where software development happens over a long period in large batches. This becomes the benchmark. Next, you assign story points to other items by comparing them to the benchmark. So a task that is twice as big as the benchmark one, will get 6.

Management 98

Management Software Review Technical Review Benchmarks 98

Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. The basic premise of agile software development is that fast iterations rather than a few larger leaps will help products progress faster. For whatever reason, these items remain fairly rigid.

Forecasting 52

Forecasting Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 52

User Pilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

A robust SaaS dashboard enables data-driven decision-making for founders, department heads, product managers/marketers, and software developers. Customer acquisition costs are usually benchmarked against lifetime values. These B2B metrics also give you an idea of more abstract concepts like product-market fit. Decision-making.

Metrics 105

Metrics SaaS Customer Lifetime Value Retention 105

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 100

Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

Interactive application security testing tools are typically used during a traditional functional software testing process and don't necessarily conduct security testing on your entire application. is a static application security software that analyzes your source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Software Review 66

Software Review Software AWS DevOps as a Service 66

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

You most likely are linking to external sources of data, external software packages that you embed in the product and turn into what you’re delivering to the customers. You have to use data to benchmark against others, to measure against others, to set the prices of the bounties. You have to keep record of everything.

Outsourcing Services 139

Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 139

Baremetrics

AUGUST 11, 2021

By using a standardized best practice methodology, the company can benchmark accurately against its competitors. Income statements aren’t particularly well suited for digital businesses because internally-created intangible assets like software development aren’t capitalized. How Is GAAP Used in Accounting?

Payment Methods 59

Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Features Payment Services 59

Full Session

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The company provides a series of comprehensive guides and video tutorials, but the process is complicated, and you’ll need help from a software developer. They can also be used for A/B testing and benchmarking features, monitoring how users respond to the different versions of your website, landing page, or specific features.

Software Review 52

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Business Technical Review 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2019

I’m gonna kind of seek out some benchmarks to see if we should try. Again, I dated myself even more so it was the first popular agile software development process. I just had our call for example, was my CRO yesterday and we were discussing some, some adjustment to the sales model. It was kind of kind of funky.

Sales Hiring 106

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Scaling 106

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

User-friendly delivery of clear and concise answers is the benchmark, and self-serve is fast becoming the ‘norm’. Example of Panintelligence dashboard) This visual approach to software development—lets you build applications and processes with no or little coding/expertise.

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52