Igor Altman
Senior Director Project Management
Startup Strategy
When to Start Coding?
I attended a talk by Dave Hussman at an Agile Bazaar event a few weeks ago at IBM's offices. In...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
In Agile, People Come First!
There are two primary reasons I've seen software development teams fail even when they adopt Agile development methods and associated...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
When Clouds Fail
No matter how large your data center, how much disaster recovery planning you do, how much replication and fail-over hardware...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
After Your Software Breaks
Even if you implement Agile development methods and a best practice process for quality assurance, there is still a chance...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
10 Practical Tips for Choosing an Offshore Software Developer (Part 2)
Last week, I shared 5 issues an expansion stage software company should consider when choosing an offshore, outsourced development vendor...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Cloud Security
A few months ago, I blogged about security concerns slowing adoption of virtualization. Given security issues around virtualization, and how...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
10 Practical Tips for Choosing an Offshore Software Developer
Last week, my colleague at OpenView Venture Partners, Jeremy Aber, provided 5 Practical Tips for Using an Offshore Software Developer,...
by Igor Altman
Product
Defining Done
To successfully adopt an Agile product development method, a developer team needs to work with product management to nail down the...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Fault tolerant people
Last week, I wrote about the importance of expansion stage software companies building fault tolerance into their products. The principle of fault...
by Igor Altman