Advisory Board, Agile and Metrics

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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5 Forces That Kill Momentum For Business First-Movers

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. The Agile Board. Board Observers & Advisory Boards -. Further Reading.

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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. Every startup should have at least quarterly meetings with an Advisory Board or key investors to bring a new perspective to what is working and what is not. If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future.

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8 Business Accountability Lapses And How To Recover

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You can and must fix this by communicating business goals and objectives, and establishing personal metrics which only reward success. Accountable leaders and teams realize that pivots are often required, and the agility to make changes to the product, business model, and even the customer set, must be part of every accountable culture.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Establish a customer advisory board. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Let them connect with each other, but also with you. Expo SF (May.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. With accompanying slides: Continuous Deployment View more presentations from TimothyFitz. Expo SF (May.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Heres what it looked like. It was painful. . Expo SF (May.

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Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Let board members know that you’re not walking through this in the actual meeting. Schedule 1:1 calls 1 week before the meeting to walk each board member through the key issues / performance metrics in the business. Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. The Agile Board.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Every experiment has to be evaluated based on a single standard report of 5-10 (no more) key metrics. Any team that creates an experiment must monitor the metrics and customer reactions (support calls, forum threads, etc) while the experiment is in-progress, and abort if something catastrophic happens. It promotes rapid iteration.

San Francisco

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

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APRIL 30, 2010

You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. ► February (1) 6 Ways You May Be Failing at Customer Development ► 2009 (9) ► December (1) Which Metrics Equal Happy Users?

Software Review

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Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Lessons Learned: About the author

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Embrace technical debt

A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board

Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Innovation inside the box

The curse of prevention

6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

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