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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Heres my take.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
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. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
PHP has always scored well on this count, with lots of support for database drivers, URL parsing, HTTP fetching, regular expressions - you name it. However, it made me remember that Im tired of technology arguments. Honestly, the PEAR database is nothing compared to CPAN. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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