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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Great piece!

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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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. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Culture of Innovation. Continuous Optimization.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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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. Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”. People closer to the product have more pull in the business.