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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Talking about trends is more about trying to forecast the future, like a guru, sometimes it works, sometimes not. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. No business model, either.