By bfwebster on Mar 26, 2008 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Financing, Hiring, Main | 0 Comments
[From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming), Chapter 2, “Supporting Development”] Those who handle product development skillfully don’t build engineering teams twice, nor raise capital three times. Building product development teams twice means having to replace the original engineers with new ones in the order to complete the product. There [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 24, 2008 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Hiring, Main | 0 Comments
[From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming), Chapter 2, “Supporting Development”] A parable in the Bible talks about counting the cost of something before you start to build. That truth is ancient and obvious, yet I’ve seen too many companies ignore it. Once you know what you want to do, [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 5, 2008 in Education, Hiring, Main | 3 Comments
When I gradated with my BS in computer science from Brigham Young University in 1978, we had roughly 120 undergraduate students in the CS program. When I came back to teach in 1985 — just seven years later — there were over 1,000 undergraduate students in the program, and you actually had to apply to [...]