A Few Will Do
I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.
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We Become Sloppy With Too Much
Everything looks exceedingly complicated. Srouji won’t discuss costs, but Apple’s research and development expenses hit $8.1 billion last year, up from $6 billion in 2014 and $4.5 billion in 2013. Many analysts attribute the rise in large part to chip development. All Srouji will say...
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Why We Should Pay Our Employees Significantly More
It pays double the average retail wage—and believes it gets more than three times the value because of the quality of people it attracts.
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Lessons Learned From The US Internal Revenue System
More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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It’s The Idea, Not The Money That Brings Success
In no case did we ever need more money for a project to succeed.
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How To Quickly Give Your Boss An Accurate Estimate
The problem is not a surprise request for a quick estimate. The problem is that we are not prepared to give quick estimates. Here is how we did it.
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Project Managers Repeat After Me: Software Development Is A Repeatable Process
I had a job interview for VP of Development. The interviewing VP with a long history in the industry asked me a simple question: Did I think software development was a repeatable process? I said yes. I won't describe the ensuing discussion except to say I didn't get the job. We didn't even get to talk about project management tools!
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