[Note: This was cut/pasted from an email response I sent an individual I had a meeting with. I did not enter into a business relationship with this person. I posted this here since it seemed to contain general advice that might be useful to others. - Kevin] Dear [Under-Capitalized Business-Guy who wants me to work [...]

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I saw this question on Quora and it caught my eye because it’s focused on the area I’m interested in professionally — how to build and launch new businesses that make a real impact. One of the answers, though, I think got it all wrong: “Selling the engineer on the vision is key, but it [...]

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I worked for a couple large companies doing development early in my career. There main frustrations I felt were: 1. Raises were based more on how the company was doing rather than individual contribution. I remember one year my entire department was given a 4% raise. Everyone got the same regardless of how hard they [...]

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Being able to focus on what you need to have in place for the future is a good thing. It’s good in that you can’t be successful without it. The challenge is that thinking 3 steps ahead too often will get you into trouble as you can lose site of the things you need to [...]

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Here’s the question: “If you’re a software engineer or developer and your asked to do a project for a lean startup to incubate and you’re asked to reduce your price in exchange for equity, what ratio of discount to equity is reasonable. An example might be a 50% discount for 30% in the company.” If [...]

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This depends a great deal on your personality and what you want to do. As a UX developer, you get deeply involved in how users will use the application — which lends itself well to a Product Management role. Product Managers set direction for the product and sequence which features will be done when. They [...]

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Having done both jobs, I’d say that the difference depends on the company. From a fundamental perspective, the role of Architect has to do with overall application design – or at minimum review of designs. Some responsibilities would include: * API Design * Application Architecture (split the app into multiple apps? One big app?) * [...]

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When organizing a sprint, there are two ways to ‘scope’ the work for each Sprint: Time-boxed or Feature-boxed. In a ‘feature-boxed’ approach, a set of features, defects and chores are defined to ‘scope’ the work to be done during the Sprint. Once those features are complete, the Sprint is complete. There are several advantages to [...]

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I recently ran across an Information Week article called The Future of Programming that forecasts a drop in the demand for programmers along with a drop in their stature withing companies. They described off-shoring and the fall-off of the Internet Boom as reasons for the decline. I’ve been programming for a long time. Most recently [...]

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