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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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. the  Google Prediction API ), communicate app services (e.g. the  Dropbox API ).

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Do lean startup principles have a place in the enterprise?

The Next Web

Facebook does it – they push new code to their platform at least twice a day and this includes changes to their API, which has over 40,000 developers using it for building apps. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Expo SF (May.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. Experience with Startups!

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

Image Source. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. As the market matures, these limitations become more apparent, and with it the increased demand for APIs and ‘headless’ optimization platforms. ” Deeper Data Skills. Check it out here.

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How To Work Better with Your Co-Founder

ReadWriteStart

While open-source tools, readily available APIs, social platforms and cloud hosting providers have made it easier in many ways, being a Web entrepreneur is still not for the faint of heart. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline. It's not easy to build a great Web application.

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