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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. The failure of the feature had nothing to do with the quality of the code.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. I have detected a secret virus in your CPU.

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Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps

andrewchenblog.com

After all, there are many methods of doing qualitative user research without writing a single line of code. It took an enormous amount of time to work through the same responses and emails and cost money not budgeted due to leaning on the side of generosity. The survey should be bounded by time and level of completion.