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by iamflimflam1·11y ago·view on hn ↗

Do it, you'll regret it if you don't give it a shot. You're young enough that a couple of years doing something you love is not going to have any impact on your career if it doesn't work out.

Best case, the startup is really successful and you help build a team of people and an agile process that works for your company.

Worst case scenario, you do it for a year or two and then walk into another job with 1-2 years experience and get a really good salary.

Just the fact that you are aware of agile approaches puts you at an advantage. Find a process that works for you as one developer and then as more people come on board use their experience to adjust it so that it works for more than one person.

There isn't one agile approach that just works, everyone modifies what they are doing to make it work for their team and their company.

It will look good on your CV. As the only developer/technical person you are going to get a huge amount of experience.

My first job after uni was in a very small 4 man company, it didn't do me any harm. Agile hadn't even been invented when I started work... so get off my lawn!

Thanks for your answer! Yeah, I'm young and it shouldn't be a problem to find any other job in 1-2 years. Agile is no must, it's just something I'm interested in (and I don't even know if I'm doing it right!). My fear is just to enter a company in 1-2 years with an old-fashioned developing waterfall workflow model, where I'm the total newbie that want's to have a good salary even not having any practise in such a way of developing death old products with death old technologies (but in real: I'd really really like NOT to enter such a company if there is any other job out there :-D)