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

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. The reviews are all over the map. I cant really tell.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software?

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

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This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions—the whole thing. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., That allows us to move quickly and maintain an agile product design strategy as well as an agile marketing strategy.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions – the whole thing. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., That allows us to move quickly and maintain an agile product design strategy as well as an agile marketing strategy.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. The only change you have to get used to as you start to code in this style, is to wrap your changes in a simple one-line condition. Now, it may be that these code examples have scared off our non-technical friends. October 4, 2008 10:33 AM Amitt Mahajan said.