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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Use data enrichment.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Great piece!

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