2010 Agile Design Development Team Review 
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. These specs are handed to a designer, who builds layouts and mockups of all the salient points.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet it had one huge advantage.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Its a key lean startup concept. Expo SF (May.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
161 
Let's personalize your content