My hand writing was awful. But I fixed it. Here’s the before picture. Note that its not even handwriting, its printing. That’s because like most people, I gave up on handwriting. Here’s the thing. Handwriting, or rather, connecting letters is…
Month: August 2013
Engineering processes: How to bootstrap good process in your startup
Ok, so you’ve got a small technology company and you’ve hit that threshold of about 4 people where it becomes glaringly obvious that you need to institute some process. Or perhaps your engineering team is smaller than that, but you realize that if you don’t spent at least a minimal amount of time on planning your work, you’re going to spend a lot more time doing the wrong work, the less important work, or delivering the wrong thing.
This article will help you bootstrap some minimal processes that will enable you to be much more effective. It should be enough to carry you to the point that you have to split engineering into multiple groups at about 10-20 people.