Selecting Internal Tools

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Selecting Internal Tools

2. Why is this important?

3. In a small company, the
engineering folks wear
many hats.

4. The most important of
them is obviously to code

5. But there’s also
“tech support”

6. From personal experience, tech
support goes a lot better if you pick
the right tools for your team from
Day 1

7. So what are these
right tools?

8. What kind of tools do
you need?

9. Bare minimum:
1) Email Service
2) Shared Storage
3) Version Control
4) Project Management

10. How do you pick these
tools?

11. 1) Cloud-based. Not
self-hosted.

12. 2) Pay as you go.
Free (ideal) or cheap
when you start.

13. 3) Has a lot of users and
is a well-known tool.

14. The reason for a lot of these
criteria can be illustrated by a
concept called
“innovation points”

15. Let’s say the startup has a limited
number of “innovation points”
to spend

16. Would you spend these innovation
points working on your product or
working on tools for your team?

17. Our recommendations:
1) Email: Google Apps
Paid at Rs. 150/user/month

18. Our recommendations:
2) Shared Storage: Google Apps
Paid at Rs. 150/user/month

19. Our recommendations:
3) Version Control: Gitlab
Free

20. Our recommendations:
3b) Version Control: Github
$7/month

21. Our recommendations:
4) Project Management:
Trello
Free to Start

22. Demo of Trello
Workflow

23. Finis: Questions?