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Totally agreed. Incidentally, on evidence of working with savvier smaller companies, talking to one man shops, and hanging out with startups, I think the commun
by patio11 14y ago
Totally agreed. Incidentally, on evidence of working with savvier smaller companies, talking to one man shops, and hanging out with startups, I think the community feels that there is a body of "Everybody does X" practices which are actually quite rare.
Examples I'm intimately familiar with include A/b testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing, etc etc. Or for more dev focused stuff, unit tests, Selenium ("the best technology that I'll never use"), code reviews as a routine practice, reproducible server setup/deploys, etc.
- arohner 14y ago> A/B testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing... unit tests, Selenium [testing], code reviews as a routine practice, reproducible server setup/deploys, etc. That sounds like the Joel test for 2012.
- skrebbel 14y agoThat sounds like the Joel test for webapp firms in 2012.
- alinajaf 14y ago> A/b testing, using usage metrics to drive decisions, customer development, lifecycle email marketing Yes, but I've been pleasantly surprised at the clueyness of of more than a few big-name clients recently. > Or for more dev focused stuff, unit tests, Selenium ("the best technology that I'll never use"), code reviews as a routine practice, reproducible server setup/deploys, etc. For deployments at least I've been blown away by the range of configurations I've seen. Everything from "git push heroku master" to "ssh into these three machines, run svn up, restart apache, merge dev couchdb to live, copy paste these 80 sql patches out of a file into the terminal, sacrifice a hamster to Amon Ra and cross your fingers."