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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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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. Daily builds are giving way to true continuous integration, in which every checkin to the source control system is automatically run against the full battery of automated tests. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. Massive proprietary databases? Dont startup CTO perform the dual architecture and manager roles until the company has an engineering team over 10+ people?

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. If you want to expand your pool of available passive candidates, give a site like NotchUp a try.

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by James Donelan , the VP of engineering at MuleSoft , provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform. Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Lean startup engineering.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Let me show you what this looked like after a few years of practicing five whys in the operations and engineering teams at IMVU.