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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Nice write-up.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. Less is more.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. No Scrum Master? ► 2008. (21). What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► November. (3). My Time Leading Tech at BusinessWeek. No Problem. ► October. (5). When Organizational Silos Hurt Innovation. ► June. (4).

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest').

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. I want to focus here on one particular strength: the ability to operate semi-autonomously.