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My old team at Atlassian shared a lot of information about the types of tests you can (and should!) write for large scale software development. But more practical tips about how you can actually develop this testing infrastructure is harder to find, scattered across many different conference presentations and documents.
Product-led growth, or PLG, has become a bit of a buzzword lately, and I’ve had a few people ask me about it in relation to their startup, and how we did things at Atlassian.
A few people have asked me about my work with Startmate, Australia’s leading startup accelerator1, and how they can get involved with investing in or mentoring startups. And, as of 2020, now also in NZ!
I was trying to watch some TV episodes recently that wouldn’t play sound through my second generation Apple TV due to their audio encoding. Fixing them turned out not to be too hard, but working it out took a while, so here it is documented for posterity.
Continuous improvement is a big part of why I continue to buy and advocate Apple products. So after upgrading to iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S, I was curious to see what small things had been tweaked and changed across the OS.
After trying Chrome for a couple of weeks on my laptop, I’m back to Firefox again as my main browser for day-to-day and development use. The drawbacks of Chrome for my everyday browsing far outweighed the benefits in speed and development tools.
Watching [last week's keynote at Apple's WWDC conference](http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2012/), I was struck by how much Apple continues to make great iterative improvements to their software and hardware products.
Last week I finished a book that has been on my reading shelf for a very long time, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It’s an account of the epic and tragic siege of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in World War II.
In my previous post on the ideal iteration length, I looked at how iteration length affected our development of Confluence at Atlassian. I also gave my definition of an iteration:
In the Confluence development team at Atlassian, we’ve played around with the length of iterations and release cycles a fair bit. We’ve always had the goal to keep them short, but just how short has varied over time and with interesting results.