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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. Practice Agile Development. Their answers are below. Cross Train Members.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

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What is Wrong With Today's CMS

www.readwriteweb.com

Then something happened to the CMS market, and a more democratic and user-led effort began with the rise of the blog. The entry of the blog didn't help matters. While blogs can and are used as CMS, they really are poor substitutes. Most CMS's are still the province of the dev team, and protected as such.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility.