The "Bookshelf": the ideal library startup from "Inzhenius Tim"

Recently "Layfhaker" and publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" began to explore the bookshelves-known companies, and this has turned the whole column. But interesting library so much! And we came up with competition: Send us a report on the shelves of your company, and we will publish the best in our category. And the authors of the best reportage will receive from publishing 20 books as a gift.

Team "Inzhenius Tim" uses machine learning techniques to predict consumer demand. This is dedicated to their software ForecastNOW!. The guys sent us a story about what reading specialists high-tech startups.

Bookshelf as a well-balanced team - it is a place for technology, business and management. Only at the intersection of these competencies are born great solutions. Together they provide a terrific synergies and act as a powerful catalyst in the process of the birth of the business idea. So here's what books make our library and help us in our work.

1. About technologies

Good technology is based on two fundamental works:

"Neural network" Simon Haykin and "Artificial Intelligence" Peter Norvig. It is these books allow us to receive an endless stream of ideas for improving the algorithms. In order to optimize the resources obtained on the basis of these algorithms had to become better acquainted with low-level programming. And then came to the aid book "Programming in assembler". Now the program works much faster.

Technology to become a good software product to slim code, which is nice and easy to read, we have added to the shelf "Code Complete", "Clean code" and "Effective use of C ++". It's no secret that most of the time code is necessary to read and maintain, and is much nicer to do it with "clean" code. "Code Complete" helps us to care not only about the speed of his writing, but also understanding of other programmers.

2. about interfaces

What software can do without easy interface? Any startup risking much, if you do not care about the convenience of its users. So we joined the bookcase instances "Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems" Jef Raskin and "Alan Cooper of the interface". Books offer a look at a variety of interface solutions from the outside, learn from the experience of large corporations and to avoid many mistakes. The interface makes you think about your user, up to the place of the client, and the examples discussed in these books, allow to make it faster and more accurately.

3. On the project management

Creating software is not possible without a competent project management. A good tool for the development of our leader was the book "The Mythical Man-Month". It's been twenty-five years since the writing of the book, but it has not lost its relevance. "How many people need to write a single module of the program?", "Can 10 people to write it 10 times faster?", "What are the main Error allow project managers? "- these and many other questions are discussed in the book by creating an operating system OS / 360.

Project management - a special skill. Because the next book on the shelf - a business novel «Deadline». The publication in a very unusual way helps to gain experience in managing teams, having a different organization, motivation and structure. We do not have behind him a dozen companies, but there is this book.

Do not forget about the human role in development. As practice shows, winning a strong team with an average technology, but not vice versa. Do not forget about the man, his importance in the project allows us to book "The human factor: the successful projects and teams". Tom DeMarco with stunning ease and humor opens your eyes to things that often escape the sight in the process.

4. On business

But the software is still not a business, but only one of the elements of the business model, the value that we want to convey to the client. We have had to change and target audience, and product functionality to finally find something that can really generate income. "Finding a business model" - it is not just a book on our shelf, it is an ongoing process at startup. There is no known failures start-ups, there are teams that were not able to rotate and change the business model.

A special place on our shelf is occupied by two books: "Startup" Guy Kawasaki and «Rework». This present collection of recipes for all occasions. Such books should be opened at least once a month, because every time you open them and find for yourself something new.

In Tver phenomenon startup underdeveloped. It is the "Startup" Guy Kawasaki has allowed us to look comprehensively at the process and understand how to make it effective. Rare startup can do without investment. To understand who are these investors, business angels or devils business, venture capital funds and sowing investments, how they work, what they want from startups and how they can help, we have got the book "In Search business angel. "

5. For inspiration

From time to time the team have hard times, there are various doubts, and his head visited evil thoughts. At such times it is important to go further. To restore emotional balance, raise morale and maintaining enthusiasm we use highly motivating books "To hell with all beris and do", "Delivering Happiness" and "Business as expedition". Its reading allows to look at the whole situation from the side, to rethink its expertise in the context of the experience of the authors and not only see the black bar, but the whole zebra entirely. But a startup - this is no ordinary zebra, zebra and an increased number of bands, where each band has its own color.

Here we have turned the history book. Hopefully it will be useful to you. We wish you a zebra loved for what it is, in spite of the frequency and the color of its stripes. She will appreciate it and your business will be the most successful!

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