Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

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