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On deployment

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And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes. Expo SF (May.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Femgineer Coder. HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products. Remember people only have two hands!

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. None of it would have happened if we had plenty of cash, or were content to count our progress by traffic or product development milestones.

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

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LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. but Im always short in hands. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# My last real concern is with the new 2.0

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