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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. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software. Great stuff!

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Massive proprietary databases? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. I dont think so.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Do you have a bug database? Please leave feedback!) Joel mentions that " CVS is fine" and so is Subversion , its successor. Youd better.

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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. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. Good stuff.

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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. Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. Expo SF (May.

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