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

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever?

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ).

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. If not, maybe an investment in that direction would be more warranted. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. Expo SF (May.

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From 160 Hours to 10: A Tale of Agile Business Practices

Software By Rob

At this point we begin looking at the launch of Hosted DotNetInvoice as a market test; to see if we could build enough of a customer base to warrant a major investment in the hosted invoicing market space. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. Stephanie February 14, 2010 11:58 AM Anonymoussaid.

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