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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
But it doesnt seem to matter. When I was working my first programming jobs, I was introduced to the following maxim: "time, quality, money - pick two." Business people may want to speed things up by spending more money, but enough people have read the Mythical Man-Month to know that doesnt work. Whats wrong with this picture?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Lets say you notice that your website is down. But as soon as the crisis is past, you have the discipline to have a post-mortem in which you start asking why: why was the website down? Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Heres how it works.
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Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 28, 2009
The most common reaction I get is something like, "that sounds great - for your business - but that could never work for my application." But, even so, there are key concerns that lead people to conclude that continuous deployment cant be used in mission critical situations. See this blog post from Flickr for how they do this.)
ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com
JULY 11, 2012
One of my solutions to this issue is to give teams some driving principles. I call this the "happy place" because there is low business and technical risk, but it doesnt imply "easy". If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Many of my friends have been in the same position, so heres my best advice , below.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. See the discussion of defects later in this post for my thoughts on how to handle those. Joel mentions that " CVS is fine" and so is Subversion , its successor.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Many of them have really cool products shipping or about to be released, and I wholeheartedly agree with my friends at the iFund that the next generation of applications is going to be amazing. My home screen is a giant mess, because installing apps is just so much fun. Ive also been playing around with the App Store. Sound familiar?
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