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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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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

My Dad uses email – he still doesn’t understand the ‘forward’ button.&#. 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 he didn’t grow up with technology. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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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. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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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.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. Thanks for sharing.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Do you have a way to notify them by SMS or email when something notable happens? 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. Try About the author.