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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…

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…

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 …

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.

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.

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…

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) t…

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 w…

IBM split from Nuance a year or so ago- it's now its own engine.

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 al…

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…

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…

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 g…