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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. I should have written this article many years ago. While there are good choices out there today, in my experience they are still the exception rather than the rule.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money. In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. It just answered this question: for any given time range, for the 100% of people who registered in that period, what percentage of them downloaded?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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