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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Managing timelines instead of queues. Inflexibility.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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I’ve seen openings for a “CTO” whose responsibilities include maintaining servers and managing the help desk. One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Communication.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO

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Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make. Understanding these skills is critical to understanding how to hire the right people to flesh out your technology team. We often give the title of “Development Manager&# or “Technical Lead&# to this role.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

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Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Account managers can tier customers. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. It’s not cheap.