Where Age Is No Barrier
One of the reasons I wrote Employee 6 Is 54, was to shine a light on how startups work. If you’re over 50 and not a technologist, you most likely cut your career teeth on a traditional company. One where clear hierarchies existed, revenue …
[Read more...] about So You Think You Know Startups? Take the Quiz to See
It wasn’t until I worked at a startup that I heard the phrase, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” If you’re not familiar, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature,” is a wry and ironic response by a developer to a user who calls out a bug in …
[Read more...] about Age: Why It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature
Because any complex code will have bugs, development teams create a staging area and process for testing, to identify problems and clean them up before release. Why staging? Most companies make use of at least three …
[Read more...] about Staging, Testing and Bugs: Getting the Code Right
With design thinking behind much of the innovation in tech today, it’s a key concept to understand for anyone working at a startup. Don’t be fooled by the word design. Design thinking is not limited to making things look good, or even to …
[Read more...] about Design Thinking and How to Apply it Outside the Product Team
When you’re new to a digital company and aren’t on the product team, software development can seem a little like magic: You see the trick happen, but you have no idea how it works and no one seems eager to explain it to you. However, while …
[Read more...] about How a Startup Product Team Works – the Basics
