This is lean development without any customer development. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. Sponsor. MORE >>

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. You’ve probably heard them far too often bragging about how close they are to signing customer X, who happens to be a publicly listed NASDAQ company. So far, they’ve passed the legal department of our customers without any problems. MORE >>

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by  Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” MORE >>

If we accept the verdict of customers instead of pundits, I think these claims are easy to dismiss. One large source of waste in development is “double-checking.&# For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration. MORE >>

You’ve obviously never witnessed two developers – usually new developers – debate the following question: What is the best programming language? months ago I would have attempted to answer this question with some rambling diatribe about scalability, developer cost, frameworks, etc. There are just different!! MORE >>