SV.COFinalise Internal Tools

Why is this important?

In a small company, the engineering folks wear

many hats.

The most important of them is obviously to code

But there’s also “tech support”

From personal experience, tech support goes a lot better if you

pick the right tools for your team from Day 1

So what are these right tools?

What kind of tools do you need?

Bare minimum: 1) Email Service

2) Shared Storage 3) Version Control

4) Project Management

How do you pick these tools?

1) Cloud-based. Not self-hosted.

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

when you start.

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

The reason for a lot of these criteria can be illustrated by a

concept called “innovation points”

Let’s say the startup has a limited number of “innovation points”

to spend

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

Our recommendations: 1) Email: Google Apps

Paid at Rs. 150/user/month

Our recommendations: 2) Shared Storage: Google Apps

Paid at Rs. 150/user/month

Our recommendations: 3) Version Control: Gitlab

Free

Our recommendations: 3b) Version Control: Github

$7/month

Our recommendations: 4) Project Management: Trello

Free to Start

Demo of Workflow

Finis: Questions?