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

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I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Lets start with the original list: Do you use source control ?

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

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Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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In France, the decline was – 4% [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. YouTube starting to roll out a live service – [link].

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Embrace technical debt

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But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. This happened quite often in the early days of IMVU.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Go Beyond the Code There are many super hackers out there (especially in the Bay Area). Jesse Davis , Entrustet. David Schnurman , Lawline. startupcto