This document contains advice from various Twitter users about agile development practices and building startups. It includes recommendations to prioritize data over opinions, measure key metrics, validate assumptions, have short feedback loops, automate testing and monitoring, never sacrifice quality for time, learn from failures, hire graduates and keep teams collocated, and focus on gaining knowledge rather than money. The overall message is about adopting an agile mindset and continuous improvement process to build the right product.

1. blend it up
@javame at #leancamp London 15.01.12

2. data
planning
team
attitude
coding

3. Data not opinions.
@aglfarquhar

4. Save everything.
@pingles

5. Measure stats with ratios.
@Jae_here

6. Use Yesterday weather.

7. Start with the right team: tech,
ux, stats, biz
@clevergirl

8. Prioritised work.

9. Validate your assumptions.

10. Short feedback loops.

11. Test driven business.

12. measure / steer / measure

13. Building it right (agile) its
pointless if nobody wants what
you built.
@mpoppendieck

14. Most of the users won't look at
your source code, but google
might do.

15. Identify your context.
Use cynefin framework.
@snowded

16. There's nothing as good as XP
programming.
@jbrains

17. The live system is your
continuous integration env.
@nutrun

18. Test before and after.

19. Test driven when complex.

20. Test at last responsible moment
when possible.

21. Deploy every hour or minute.

22. There's no big bang.

23. Split traffic.

24. Leverage cloud.
@rylon

25. Autoscale.
@rylon

26. Automate.

27. Monitor.

28. Never trade quality for time.
@ericries

29. I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Bene Gesserit

30. You fail only if you didn't learn
anything.

31. Every single thing you do in life,
really everything, it’s just a
learning experience.
@javame

32. Build a strong core team.

33. Hire grads.
@gordonguthrie

34. Don't offshore.

35. Be collocated.

36. Trust your team.

37. A startup is dead only the day
the team is dead.
@robfitz

38. I learnt very little from my
successes, way more from my
failures, so go and fail.
@javame

39. You will always be a startup, you
will always need to keep Eric
book in the bedside table.
@javame

40. Startup is not about getting
rich, concentrate on the
learning experience.

41. Money comes money goes.
Knowledge doesn't.

42. Don't think big.

43. Get big.

44. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

45. Thanks.