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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. I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. When its receding, we rescope.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine.

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Behind Every Great Product

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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. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator. GOOGLE ADWORDS – Jane Manning.

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