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Top 12 Employee Engagement Strategies that Get Your Software Developers to Stick Around

TurnKey Labs

All software development projects have lofty goals. But realizing that reaching these development objectives depends on engaging and retaining your software developers across the project’s lifecycle will save you a lot of headaches and speed up development.

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Product Team Structure – A Guide For SaaS Product Teams

User Pilot

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. They lead a team that consists of developers and designers. What is a product team structure? Product Team Roles.

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Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder (Podcast +Video)

SaaStr

From its humble beginnings as a one-click dictionary solution to becoming an industry leader in RPA program development, UiPath’s story offers valuable insights for SaaS entrepreneurs looking to scale their own automation initiatives. They went to India for a few months to develop a prototype and realized this was where the market was.

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From CIO to CEO – What It Takes and Why It Works

OpenView Labs

It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in or what size company you are, software is a critical component—a foundational element. CIOs are able to apply Agile concepts to business development. Maybe the biggest CEO-specific responsibility is defining and holding the company culture. It is the company.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.