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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Do you have a bug database? Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important.

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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? Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? But along the way, something strange happened. I dont think so.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Expo SF (May.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

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Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. . If you liked this post, please subscribe or follow me on Twitter.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

But instead of spending the time and money to develop products on spec, TPGTEX creates mocked-up webpages that list the features of a potential new product -- such as a system for making radio-frequency identification, or RFID, labels -- along with its price. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis.

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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. Expo SF (May.

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