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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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