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

Startup Lessons Learned

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Personal Entrepreneurial attitude.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

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All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. The reviews are all over the map. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories. I cant really tell. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

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But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. open source. Mired In Code. Technology Review. grad school.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. The only change you have to get used to as you start to code in this style, is to wrap your changes in a simple one-line condition. Now, it may be that these code examples have scared off our non-technical friends. October 4, 2008 10:33 AM Amitt Mahajan said.