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Timing Is Everything: Choosing the Right Product Launch Strategy
Release fast but flawed, or wait and strive for perfection? Get the timing of your next product launch right with these expert tips.

Elena Grigoras
Designing VR Games Worth Playing: 6 Key Considerations
Despite decades of hype, virtual reality gaming has failed to be widely adopted. Better design can reduce player frustration, increase comfort, and make games more immersive.
Edward Moore
Keeping Sight of the Forest: Risk Management and Creativity in an Agile Ecosystem
Agile has a reputation for delivering results in uncertain times and high-risk industries. But when risk management turns into a culture of total risk aversion, you may find that it comes at the cost of innovation.

Scott Lee
Tough Times Don’t Have to Mean Tough Terms: Leveraging Financial and Cap Table Modeling in VC Negotiations
When capital is scarce, VCs may tighten their terms to reduce their risk. Here’s how to think through three of the most common preferred terms to ensure you don’t give away too much of your company.

Erik Stettler
The Secret Behind Steady App Performance: Asynchronous JavaScript
JavaScript’s default synchronous methods can freeze an application, scaring off end users. Here’s how you can leverage asynchronous JavaScript techniques to increase control over front-end responsiveness.

Muhammad Ammar Ilyas
Shopping for Apparel in an Online World: UI/UX Design for Virtual Clothing Try-on
How is technology changing the way people shop for clothes? Designers explain how to use AR and VR to drive conversions and minimize returns.

Laurence Brothers
Defining Who, What, and Why: How to Write a User Story
A good user story can drive efficient planning, on-time delivery, team engagement, and customer satisfaction. Here’s a guide to creating one.

Abhishek Choudhary
How C++ Competitive Programming Can Help Hiring Managers and Developers Alike
Programmers gain valuable real-world skills from algorithm competitions that can boost their job prospects—and contest ratings make it easier for hiring managers to find top talent. Explore competitive C++ with a programmer whose scores got them recruited by Google.

Anitet Wheeler-Rose
CapEx 101: Resolving the Agile vs. Waterfall Conflict With Hybrid Methodology
What do Agile, Waterfall, and the former energy corporation Enron have in common? A strange shared history that may shed light on one of the most well-known conflicts in software development.

Adam Zachary Wasserman
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