chetatkinsdiet

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by chetatkinsdiet 6y ago
I'm a manager of people and compensation is one of my levers (not my only) for both rewarding high quality work and retention. While on the surface role-oriented firm salaries seem like a noble idea, it results in a mess. I have a bu
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by chetatkinsdiet 6y ago
Most times they don't even read the books. They just stop at "what doesn't get measured doesn't happen." Great, that leads people to measure all sorts of stupid stuff like lines of code to production. Who cares i
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by chetatkinsdiet 6y ago
Easy enough in a small org, much more difficult in a big org. Part of the point of OKRs, when done right, are that it shows how the thing you're working on today ladders up to the big thing that drives the entire company forward. Tha
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by chetatkinsdiet 7y ago
Fun fact, if you're an enterprise customer you can demand full second rounding, or if you're mid market you can bring that down to 6 second rounding in many telco oriented places.
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by chetatkinsdiet 7y ago
Super easy and a bunch of apps do it, the problem here is that the numbers actually have a leasing cost if you want to hang on to them vs something like an email alias/front.
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by chetatkinsdiet 9y ago
the difference is that it's pretty easy to tell a good b school (lots of objective rankings). at an early stage, it's really tough to tell a good startup- as a candidate you are at a significant disadvantage in choosing a startup
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by chetatkinsdiet 9y ago
I was with you until your last sentence. There are plenty of extremely highly successful companies selling products at a very high clip that require credit facilities (aka loans) to finance the selling of their products. The reality is th
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
As someone who's worked with a lot of these engines, Nuance and IBM are the only really high quality players in the space. CMUSphinx and Julius are fine for low volume operations where you don't need really accurate response rates
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
IBM split from Nuance a year or so ago- it's now its own engine.
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
A really good read- we don't spend enough time talking about the strategy for startups as it relates to larger companies. We talk about disrupt, disrupt, disrupt, but it doesn't always have to be that way. When aligned properly
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
We are a bit bigger (150 people or so, so take this with a grain of salt). We use Zendesk to track bugs. It's nice because of its assignment features. That said, I find it terrible about everything else. Feature requests are currentl
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
Good point- that all said, if we're automating requirements we're not solving the problems that tend to matter. The key to requirements building is in the process. The best process I've found so far is User Story Mapping (J
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by chetatkinsdiet 11y ago
If this is how you're defining requirements for software or new product creation you're doing it wrong. The goal should never be to describe every single outcome or scenario- the goal should be to build understanding between busin
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Factor Samurai: From Zero to Profitability in the Educational App Market(gamasutra.com)
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