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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Labels: agile , customer development 5comments: William Pietri said. Seems like all of these problems can be to some degree addressed with agile development methods. Even a great architecture becomes inflexible. We can skip the chasm. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

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Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc. Expo SF (May.

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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? The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever? Great post, very educational.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. One last note on reporting. Sometimes it makes sense to measure the micro-impact of a micro-change. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. 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?

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. Twylite makes a good point, what good is a programmer if they dont have the necessary skills to be able to promote and sell their ideas/programs to the world? Hello Eric, Great post.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.