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Subject:Software Development Company Structure From:Tracey Moore <traceym -at- APPLIEDMAPPING -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:39:59 -0400
I work for a startup software development company. We have completed a product that we feel is ready for the market, and are in that process.
I am looking for three things.
1. One, our President and Marketing guru knows virtually nothing about the software industry. Our employees total 6--three programmers, two GIS data analysts and me, the lone tech writer. None of us have been involved in bringing a product to market.
I have searched the web and the tech writer archives, to only be dumbfounded. Does anyone have any suggestions on books about this subject, and/or consultants that help young companies do this?
2. I have been asked to write a plan for designing a software company. Anyone know of any books on this subject? If anyone can share organizational charts with me (genericized, of course), I would be soooo grateful.
3. I have also been asked to write a software development guide that outlines the steps you take from dreaming up the product to developing it to putting it out to market. Any great books on that subject?
