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From Ph.D. to boutique software developer: An interview with Solwey’s Andrew Drach

TechCrunch

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Confusion results when the initiative inadvertently ruins departmental synchronization.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Student Groups - Go to the local university and find out what student groups there are for programmers. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Ask a few CTO type people. Or ask me Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions. Student Groups - Go to the local university and find out what student groups there are for programmers. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built.

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

CIO

Actors and leaders of incubators and educational movements are doing what they can for the sake of those in both technological and non-technological sectors. Many become coaches or consultants of low-code/no-code for companies while others within incubators or movements lead awareness and training on these technologies.

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Software Development Life Cycle?—?The Ultimate Guide [2020]

Codegiant

The XP method encourages the MVP (minimum viable product) framework. It strives to develop a “just-enough” product that serves the market needs well. Gene, CTO at Static Jobs. “ We have daily stand ups with bi-weekly product demos. ”?—?Matthew Matthew Wardenaar, Head of Product at Momentum. “