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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s). Lessons Learned.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers. But I know enough to know that daily decisions / trade-offs are made by technology coders who have never spent a day with their customers. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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15 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. A mobile app is on its way.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. . Expo SF (May.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.