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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Nobody gets here overnight, but every step along the way has made us better developers. Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). They’ll increase code quality, prevent defects and educate your developers. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Chad Sanderson – The Statistical Pitfalls of A/B Testing. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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Fit for the test: Normal tests assume independence and that error is normally distributed. Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. Interpretable: Easy to tell how a change altered user behavior. You can’t see it.)