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8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence

TechCrunch

Will your organization and your code pass technical due diligence when it’s your turn? Let’s start with the positives: If an investor is proceeding with technical due diligence (TDD), you’ll likely pass. Here’s the not-so-good news: Companies can pass the business test, but fail TDD.

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A prep checklist for startups about to undergo technical due diligence

TechCrunch

8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. Previously, the author offered a detailed overview of the technical due diligence (TDD) process investors conduct before injecting cash into early stage startups. ” Product roadmap. Code quality. Jira tickets).

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7 ways investors can gain clarity while conducting technical due diligence

TechCrunch

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. But when it comes to assessing investment opportunities, few venture and growth equity investors have the resources to conduct thorough technical diligence. The focus of diligence tends to be on aspects of a product that can be measured.

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The importance of Code Reviews

Apiumhub

Code reviews were introduced with the intention of improving code quality, developers review each other’s code during a code review to ensure software quality, usually prior to merging the code. The code review process should not be limited to receiving only one-sided feedback.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

Creating new software and releasing it into the marketplace to achieve wild success is the dream! If you can simplify your onboarding process and show your product's value from the beginning, you can lower customer churn and increase the usability of your product. Examples of successful product onboarding strategies.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Disallow anything outside the scope of the original task, such as code cleanup or other drive-by improvements. “biased” or “lagging indicator”).

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Product Managing to Prevent Burnout

Honeycomb

I don’t see burnout mentioned often when the work of product management is discussed, but I believe it should be taken much more seriously. But personally, I think that way of working is a dereliction of my responsibilities, and a willful ignorance of product team power structures. Now, I’m not naive.