All Stories

The Triple P

Those wondering about moving from technical leadership to engineering management always ask me the same questions: What am I going to do? What is expected from me? How are you...

Stop thinking that internet marketing should come after building the product.

http://andrewdumont.me/build-it-but-they-wont-come Cynical, but there’s no better way to put it. Building a product is only the first step of a very long journey, a journey that doesn’t always reward the...

Where are my Hypotheses Eric?

I have a problem with the “Build Measure Learn” Lean Startup Wheel. I really do. This Build Measure Learn thing let entrepreneurs and product managers think that the exploration process...

"Fake it 'til you make it", or, as they say now "MVF, Minimum Viable Feature"

This is an absolutely necessary technique. I use it a lot. What I think is important is to assert assumptions, a way or another. What is important, in an exploratory phase, is...

http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/blog/pruning-our-product-backlog

http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/blog/pruning-our-product-backlog‘but more importantly help us to apply these guidelines to new backlog items to prevent waste at an early stage. After filtering out the noise, we will focus on fewer...

My definition of a Minimum Viable Product

For me, the definition of a Minimum Viable Product is simple. It answers yes to the three questions below. Does the product provides gain > pain to the customer ?...

Awesome detail on google search

You can see a really great and simple advice when looking for a disease : “Please consult a doctor is you have a medical concern.”.

Great Rails 4 Rake Task to Generate Rails Guides on Kindle

https://gist.github.com/3968711 You should find your .mobi here =) Enjoy!

5 Tips I Use to Gain "Intense Focus" When I Code

Focus is the most important thing when you are coding. It allows you to achieve from end to end (idea > experimentation > measurement) little parts of your product efficiently....

More RSpec goodness

Some test refactoring led me to achieve some goodness with rspec. We can definitely see here that the syntax sugar helped me write : - more maintanable tests - more...