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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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

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2009. (36). Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. No Scrum Master? Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration. ► December. (3). The Most Important Job of the CIO. What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► November. (3). No Problem. ► October. (5).

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 9, 2009 Built to learn Its been an exhilarating ride since the Web 2.0 And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. Andy April 10, 2009 9:57 AM Eric Santos said. Expo last week.