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When is growth not the best choice? Why we chose to build Planio as a sustainable business instead of drowning in VC dollars

Planio

On the other hand, bootstrapping your startup forces you to think in a lean way. What he discovered was that a lack of external resources, such as energy, infrastructure, and capital, led even major companies to focus on more inventive solutions. This community is what Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly calls your 1,000 True Fans.

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

Leaders are keen to simplify their infrastructures, reduce overhead costs, and offload some of the work while increasing business agility. If I may borrow an idea from the Lean school of thought, I might say there’s a tendency to optimize locally. Magazine Web Portal: Legacy: Oracle Endeca. Microservices?

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

Story Point Estimating,” Richard Carlson, ALEA, Agile and Lean Associates, 2013. Improving Subjective Estimations Using Paired Comparisons,” Eduardo Miranda, IEEE Software Magazine, Vol. “Group Processes in Software Effort Estimation,” Kjetil Moløkken?østvold Tanilkan, Hans Gallis, Anette C. Lien, and Siw E. 1, January 2001.