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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? A tale of two career paths.

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FinOps Debt. Like Technical Debt; Only Worse.

SaaSOptics

Most in the software world have heard of ‘technical debt’ (thorough exploration here by Martin Fowler) but a short definition from Wikipedia is: the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer. . But our developer has a deadline tomorrow.

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Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV (Pod 651 + Video)

SaaStr

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Due diligence is essential; you should feel empowered to ask those questions from day one.

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What I Learned Selling My Company for $130M with Harry Glaser of Periscope Data and ModelBit

SaaStr

The adage is true that tech companies aren’t sold. Most often, you get a call from a function called corporate development. It’s not a bad relationship to have, but understand that they’re deal executors, not deal creators. At a pre- or post-IPO tech company, it’ll likely be the CEO or CPO. How do these exits happen?

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Best DAST tools for DevOps & software development teams

Audacix

Table Of Contents The strangest reality of application security in the age of "shift left" is the poor understanding of DAST tools (dynamic vulnerability scanning tools) and, particularly, the value that they the offer as part of a modern software development lifecycle. Github) and your preferred CICD pipeline orchestration tool (eg.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.