Aggregator Agile Product Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important? Expo SF (May.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2010
My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? . Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.
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