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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. Carl Liebert : And I know, as a CEO, you want to put your head down in a founder and go execute. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great. Yes, we’d like that. So I share that with you, Eric.