Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

These tests were assembly language programs that tested for correct CPU operation, and management had budgeted 6-8 weeks to develop a particularly complex set of tests. I developed them in 3 days, by writing a C program to automatically generate the range of tests. Or, writing code to write CPU tests).

Software Review 111

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We started developing capabilities as part of that great power competition with the Soviet Union. There are five things we have to do to set up Space Force: Developing our own people is a big piece of what we’re focusing on. We need to develop space experts that understand how to operate in the contested domain.

Technology 323

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers.

Fractional CTO 400

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

Cloud 60

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

Software Review 164

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

Customer Development 131

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling.

Part-Time VPE 323

Part-Time VPE Agile Engineer Startup 323

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Especially in this world of constant litigation and hackers, how can I as an executive manage the risk to my personal future, as well as the future of my company?

Technology 206

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 206

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Especially in this world of constant litigation and hackers, how can I as an executive manage the risk to my personal future, as well as the future of my company?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

Security 140

Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The IT process automation should be the primary step in IT operations management, organizational designs, investments and supports. The organizations need to know that IT process automation is not just an add-on tool but a stepping stone towards future of their business development. Change Management. Skills of Employees.

Operations 66

Operations Architecture Cost Technical Review 66

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Especially in this world of constant litigation and hackers, how can I as an executive manage the risk to my personal future, as well as the future of my company?

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Helping clients in all stages, sizes and sectors do just that is exactly how Bo has developed his career. They’re the ones doing the disrupting, and their innovations are making waves.”.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom Technical Review Design Operations 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?"

CTO 168

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Seeing the tangible results of our efforts, like a client's business flourishing because of a website we designed or a marketing strategy we developed, is incredibly rewarding. The excitement of learning & adapting to new trends in digital marketing & web development keeps me engaged & inspired.

Entrepreneur 117

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

The early architecture conditions created what engineers called “technical debt” and that effectively became weaponized to stall significant investment in fixing the old in order to build the future. engineers paired would jump from frontend to backend erratically at each sprint iteration. We should have been able to do both.

Product 62

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. It has to be found and managed. Leverage is work, though.

Product Development 88

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. How do you address that?

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

Technology 143

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 143

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers.

Fractional VPE 89

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

They are leaders, visionaries, founders and managers having tremendous success. Even more surprisingly, the engineering team was equally vocal about their contention that adding rounded corners would add weeks of development time to the project, which would have pushed it out way past its hard deadline, effectively killing it.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Software Review 164

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Image Credit: Steve Benson. Thanks to Steve Benson, Badger Maps ! #4 4 – Sr.

Entrepreneur 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? A few are architectural design companies. Nicole Bernard (13:27): Yeah, maybe. Yeah, it's funny.

Social Media 75

Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 75

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. The initial development rush slows. Implementation/Development. by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi.

Security 206

Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively. Experience with Startups!

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

And as Kapor himself points out, the core ideas have even older origins: The Roman architecture critic Vitruvius advanced the notion that well-designed buildings were those which exhibited firmness, commodity, and delight. Yet a huge class of modern software projects are being developed in a very different context.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable. You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Especially with Sarbanes Oxley, how can I as an executive manage the risk to my personal future, as well as the future of my company? Data security.

Entrepreneur 220

Entrepreneur Agile Architecture Distribution 220

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It was whatever you can do to get away from the classic DOD stovepipe way of doing business to a much more agile software approach. Josh Marcuse and the Defense Innovation Board were instrumental in helping us see what those agile principles were and how we could get moving and go fast. That is the future for the Department of Defense.

Artificial Inteligence 283

Artificial Inteligence Technology Agile Architecture 283

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2012

We’re looking for an individual that can: Interact directly with a client and be accountable for managing their own project schedule and deliverables. Create strategy documents such as personas, information architecture, user paths, and wireframes. Run meetings and present / defend your strategy and design work.

Architecture 123

Architecture Agile Salary Mobile 123

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. In a successful startup, the development team is also growing.

Continuous Deployment 122

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122