This document discusses issues with single developer projects like poor communication, downtime, and high turnover. It recommends reading an article that programming often sucks and sysadmins play an important role. Great leaders are willing to discard entire codebases for the good of their company. Useful tools mentioned include Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, New Relic, AWS, and Heroku. The presentation of these ideas follows a hierarchy of focusing on functionality, user experience, and design. Contact information is provided at the end.

1. I hate computers.

2. warning signs
single developer
bad communication
frequent downtime
emergency driven
high turnover
lack of motivation
over-building
under-testing
bad estimation
equity-only deals

3. Programming sucks.
Everyone should read:
http://daftlabs.com/ProgrammingSucks
“Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust
me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they
wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets
protecting your canned goods from roving bands of
mutants.”

4. Great leaders are willing to throw away their
entire codebase for the good of the company.

5. y

6. Tools
Pivotal Tracker
Github
New Relic
Amazon Web Services
Heroku

7. hierarchy of needs
functionality
user experience
design

8. Thank you!
This presentation is available at:
daftlabs.com/slides/PMS14
daftlabs.com/creed
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