My name is D. Li. Working as independant consultant for a telecommunication start-up now. Since graduated from SCU with MSCE degree, I have worked as software engineer, system administrator, department manager and network engineer for many years.
In the past 10 years, I have worked for several start-up and honestly to say. I like working for start-up. Besides the size and funding, the major difference between start-up and bigger company, from my experience, is system.
When startup tends to do planing by days or weeks, big company tends to do planing by a relatively longer term, like months or years. When doing a planing by month or year, project mangement becomes a very important role, otherwise team may lose track. I believe the part start-up company needs to learn from big company is project management. even startup's planing style is fast pace and changing frequently. Project management still can benefit startup by optimally allocate all kind resouce.
I expect to learn how to allocate resource like time, human resource and buget in a project. that will definitely benefit my work.
