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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

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Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. So rather than center the designers together on one centralized team, Meyers put one designer on each individual product team instead, paired with product managers and front-end engineers.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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). Chad Sanderson: “Aligning Experimentation Across Product Development and Marketing”. Sometimes marketing and engineering departments want to do parallel experiments and run into conflicts. Recruited a lead engineer and a designer.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said.

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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. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. edfryed talks at #cxllive pic.twitter.com/dQd4N5anQd. — Fred Pike (@fred_pike) March 29, 2018.

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4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

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Every product is built in isolation and while the details of Apple's product development process are not that "open" either from what I've heard often engineers don't even have a full picture of the product they are building. Go Anti-Stealth. Steve Jobs is notorious for how secretive he is.

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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.