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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? October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. But along the way, something strange happened. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. Great piece!

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. There’s no single metric to track, there are many: Leads.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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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. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said. But it worked. We made it. So can you.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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There are tons of metrics you can monitor: Conversion rate; Bounce rate ; Click-through rate ; Pageviews; Lead captures; Purchase conversion rate. Setting up your experiments for success: Define success metrics. Statistical ghost: When you think your test has impacted your metric, but in reality there’s no impact.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. One prominent example: Stack Overflow. What would you say to an ALT.NET developer? Robert Stanton.

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