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by asyncscrum 1y ago
Consider it forwarded!
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All the job candidates are fake(sofuckingagile.com)
8 points by asyncscrum 1y ago|2 comments
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by asyncscrum 3y ago
https://sofuckingagile.com Mostly about enterprise saas product leadership and the intersection with sales.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
> Baron fell into a coma, from which he never awoke. He passed in 2010. I hadn't known that Baron was in a coma for 24 years after this.
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The 1986 Paris-Dakar rally (2021)(hagerty.com)
92 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|47 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
The most important takeaway here is that the customer is willing to negotiate timing and scope. The 12wk plan was actually 1yr and the author is still around to write this. If your colleagues claim the sky is falling because a software deve
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
My favorite fight search tool was hipmunk. Their 'agony' sort was my favorite feature in any software ever. SAP bought them, and I was so hopeful that Concur would bake this into their god awful app that I had to use for work. No
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The Invisible College of Experimental Flatology(flatology.com)
1 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|0 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Usually I determine the money range required to live the lifestyle I want. Once competing offers hit that threshold, then I take money off the table as a evaluation criteria. Usually it comes down to a single question for me. How likely is
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UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2022(ubs.com)
2 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|0 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Worked at a company that had a business line offering a professional service to saas firms. We got into the saas game ourselves and leaned on our existing customers to analyze their calls. I was the 'machine' in our machine learni
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
One on my major takeaways from the calls was how many people were visibly sick yet still working and getting on calls. WFH has really destroyed the concept of stay home and get some rest.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
It basically refers to data in salesforce being complete, accurate and input in a consistent way. It's a term used around software apps that drive decision making and are useless without the criteria I mentioned.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
At companies that are very customer centric, often times the calls are shared with customer success and implementation teams ensuring your goals as expressed during the buying phase are aligned with the implementation. This allows shorter i
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
True, will update the article. I still found it somewhat surprising.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
This is a good question. Regarding letting customers talk, the teams that were most successful had great salesforce hygiene, and teams with great salesforce hygiene were required to fill in certain data points. This means that there are com
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I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls(sofuckingagile.com)
487 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|168 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Thus spawning a whole new class of tools that add a more convenient interface on-top of salesforce.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
The rockyou.com insight was new to me. I hadn't heard of this breach somehow. I was wondering how they had 32m users and read some more on Wikipedia and they had Facebook apps and some MySpace plugins. From Wikipedia > In December 2
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Worked for the company that made this game many many years after they got out of gaming. For years we got calls about it. Sometimes licenced it to other developers for nothing. We had some cool Japanese packaging and artwork from that era.
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Examples of when a screenshot solved an unsolvable support ticket(sofuckingagile.com)
6 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|0 comments
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Websites get cool with Ajax or die (2006)(phys.org)
6 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|0 comments
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Moving House(mha.mun.ca)
22 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|10 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Next stop, tiktok!
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
OP here, yes with a big team with established processes and a backlog that hundreds might be in love with, proceed with caution. And honestly, this is only to protect other people's sentimental value with the content. The lost time spe
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As the old guy at a startup(sofuckingagile.com)
19 points by asyncscrum 4y ago|7 comments
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
I only recently restarted a blog after a decade hiatus. For me there's two reasons: 1. Catharsis. Work and life is often excruciating and it's calming to organize your thoughts about a subject. 2. To see if people relate. Sometime
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
...and we only do it if all tests are green, obviously. I picture the collective hackernews nodding in unison, muttering 'obviously.'
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
This is 100% true. The bigger the deal value, the less delegation there is. Often times, if it's like a top 10 account, the CEO shows up and is heavily involved in the presentation layer.
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by asyncscrum 4y ago
Yes this is also an additional gotcha that makes this process an even deeper quagmire.

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