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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 16, 2013
We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. This is easiest to see in deployment.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. I am basically a one-man shop.
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