StartupCTO processes http://www.startupcto.com/ 2010-09-08T09:04:29-04:00 StartupCTO http://www.startupcto.com/ http://www.startupcto.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-02-06T17:54:49-04:00 Building Widgets: Business Requirements vs. Technical Requirements http://www.startupcto.com/processes/business-vs-technical-requirements?rev=1265496889 Have you ever built a widget? No, I’m not talking about one of those Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets, as cool as they are. Nor a Confabulator Widget, or a Yahoo! Widget. I’m talking about a good old-fashioned widget. What’s that, you ask? Surely you don’t need me to explain a widget to you. text/html 2009-05-09T19:02:17-04:00 Code Documentation Standards http://www.startupcto.com/processes/code-documentation-standards?rev=1241910137 Documenting your code well is almost as important as making sure it is bug free. In fact, many people would argue that it is more important, because if you document it well, at least somebody else can come in and fix your bugs later on. I like using the *doc format for code documentation (phpdoc, javadoc, etc.) because it is fairly standard and easily machine+human readable. It uses @ identifiers for various peices of documentation (e.g. @param, @return, @see, etc.) text/html 2009-06-17T02:11:50-04:00 Documentation - Practical Practices & Ideas http://www.startupcto.com/processes/documentation-practical-practices-and-ideas?rev=1245219110 This document aims to give some practical ideas and advice for Internet startups and Internet development shops as to what they should consider documenting when they're writing 'documentation'. There's probably a lot of things on here that you don't need to document in your particular case, and there's probably a lot of things that aren't on here that you do need to document. text/html 2009-02-14T23:22:29-04:00 Processes http://www.startupcto.com/processes/home?rev=1234671749 processes index text/html 2008-06-18T23:04:20-04:00 Project Management When You Don't Know What You're Building http://www.startupcto.com/processes/project-management-when-you-dont-know-what-you-are-building?rev=1213844660 Next time you’re flying somewhere in the US, consider this: the air traffic controllers that are guiding your plane are using technology originally developed in the 1960’s and 1970’s called ARTS to make sure you don’t crash into another plane. They started working on a new system called AAS in 1983, canned it in 1994, and resurrected part of it in 1996. Now we’re already in 2006, and they’re saying Phase I deployment won’t be done for another year. text/html 2009-05-20T19:52:19-04:00 Website + WebApp QA & Testing Procedures http://www.startupcto.com/processes/web-qa-testing?rev=1242863539 This is intended to be a brief overview of some of the things you need to do think about when doing QA/testing a website or web application. It is aimed more at the front-end than the back-end, and is not comprehensive (but should still serve as an excellent guide). text/html 2008-06-19T13:49:11-04:00 The Story of the Paperclip: Writing Good Functional Requirements http://www.startupcto.com/processes/writing_good_functional_requirements?rev=1213897751 The Humble Paperclip The paperclip was invented in the 1890s, and has been around, more or less unchanged, for the last hundred years. It isn’t likely that anyone created a requirements document for the paperclip, but I sometimes like to think of what it would have looked like if someone had.