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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

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In decentralized (or “embedded”) teams, optimization responsibilities are distributed amongst employees under many different umbrellas within the organization, rather than one department. Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. I want to add one last idea, even though I recognize it is controversial, bordering on the boundary between the CTO and VP Engineering. Heres my take.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

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recommendation engines, chatbots, automated suggestions for collaboration). Fit for the test: Normal tests assume independence and that error is normally distributed. Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”. People closer to the product have more pull in the business.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). 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. On commit automatically run all tests. But it worked.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

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Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. 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. Serve as a channel of knowledge.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders? Here are a couple ideas: 1. Ideas are important.