Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. Here''s the simplest form of that cycle: Week -1 - Planning/End-of-Cycle - Software engineers are planning: writing specifications, doing light prototyping, and experimentation. It wasn’t always this way.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 23, 2009
If all the engineers work on the same thing at the same time, and all the marketers do the same, and QA, and ops, all the way down the line, then each department develops its own team-based private reality. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. If those teams are functionally organized, the problem is amplified.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2009
They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. You can learn more about that by reading The engineering managers lament.) Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 2, 2008
But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Even VCs do it.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 29, 2013
Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes. So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Many great engineers Ive worked with (especially the type I talked about in the hackers lament ) seem to think that if they get along well with someone in an interview, theyll be a good addition to the team.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
Eric, I wrote up the outline for a government program to promote entrepreneurship I call the "Civilian Innovation Corps" This would be a program supported jointly by government and private investors and would immediately jumpstart the innovation engine in this country. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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