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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Rally Acquires AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

Customer and Agile Development (and the Lean Startup ) may be the emerging methodologies large companies need to build innovative new products. Customer and Agile Development may be the methodologies that large companies need to build innovative new products. The Quest for Resilience, Gary Hamel / Liisa Valikangas : Sept 2003. -

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Model: Not Just For Startups Any More

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Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. A few years later Blank was teaching agile engineering, which is the idea that “instead of building a product in one lump sum, people build it in increments.” The Evolution Of The Lean Startup. The lean startup model is not new.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

In 2003 U.C. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development. Business model design + customer development + agile development is the process that startups use to search for a business model. I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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