Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
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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ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2018
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. AI is perfect for situations when your traffic sources change, and what works best changes. Serve as a channel of knowledge.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 19, 2017
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.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Height has a pretty tight, normal distribution. Cisco was a husband and wife team.
ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2019
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. Interpretable: Easy to tell how a change altered user behavior.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
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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