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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? That means knowing whats written and whats not, what the architecture can and cant support, and how long it would take to build something new. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. This, in some way, is a byproduct of self organization.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. The downside was that we had to combine dozens of projects whose internal architectures, coding styles, and general quality varied widely. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about.

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No departments

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. I suggested that we change the underlying architecture of our UI system so that the artists would be able to build their own UI pieces themselves and then integrate them into the product without requiring new code every time.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Bring your questions.

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Startup Execution Transcends the Idea From Day One

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Microsoft found this out when their market capitalization, once at $560B, had fallen in 2010 to $219B, allowing them to be passed by Apple, who grew from $15.6B Metrics are required for ensuring the return to a known good baseline. Maximize technology architecture and standards. during that period.