Igor Altman
Senior Director Project Management
Product
SAP goes Agile
New York Time's technology blog reported last week that SAP is adopting Agile development methods to "increase the speed" of product...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Fact-based decision-making
A key OpenView Venture Partners value is fact-based decision-making. We bring this to the venture capital investment decisions we make...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Impact
Ideally, you have focus on and a true sense of urgency around having impact.  Ask.com's Dictionary.com defines impact in a...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Focus
It is difficult to have a true sense of urgency (discussed yesterday), without focus, another OpenView core value. In fact,...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
True Sense of Urgency
Following up on yesterday's post, the OpenView value I will focus on today is a 'True sense of urgency'. The...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Choosing an outsourced development provider
As part of product management and development support to an expansion stage software company in our venture portfolio, I recently...
by Igor Altman
Startup News
Security Concerns Slow Virtualization
I came across this article on a Gartner report focusing on the top 6 virtualization security risks today. And in...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Analysis Paralysis
Decisive action at an expansion stage software company (as well as any big company) has many enemies. There's the motivation...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Agile Leadership
Two weeks ago, I attended a course titled "An Integral Framework for Leading Agile/Lead Capabilities", created by Bud Phillips and Michael...
by Igor Altman