Agile, Customer Development, Open Source and Programming

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source

Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

Open Source

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Second, doing customer discovery via video actually increased the number of interviews the students were able to do each week. The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. If you can’t see the Helmsman slides click here.

Oakland

Oakland Asia Lean Video

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. Fast forward to today. Do it Again!?

Lean

Lean Management Business Model Incubator

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

Lean

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS

Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology.

Lean

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. What do you think?

Technology

Technology Coder Semantic Social Media

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

Lean

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Amazon PostRank

Software Review

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I dont think so.

CTO

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Giving rise to three verbs: Implement (programming!) Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code. Great points Eric.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

SEM

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

We had a great on-boarding process, complete with a mentoring program and a syllabus of key ideas to be covered. We didnt start with a great program like that, nor did we spend a lot of time all at once investing in it. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. What is customer development?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&# Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

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

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, February 9, 2009 7:45 PM Joseph Flahiff said.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

Audience

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Yes, you may be more familiar with the term open source, but lets give credit where credit is due , at least for today). Its a wonderful filter for people who are intrinsically motivated by the art of programming.

Software Review

Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco

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. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software.

San Francisco

San Francisco Developer Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Can you make a build in one step?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Seed Startups.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. So did I when I finally found myself building an app with real scalability, a few years later, but a combination of our just-in-time scalability technique and great open source scaling tools, made it manageable.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. You can see the design of the program here. I hate to say it, I'm sorry to say it, but it is the 100% truth.

DC

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Thats simply impossible on most platforms.

PHP

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog.

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Korea Agile Lean

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Like its sister class, Hacking for Defense , our goal is to open-source this class to other universities.

Lean

Lean Government Agile Africa

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

Lean

Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean

How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 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?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Trending Sources

Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Lean Startup at Scale

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Startup Tools

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

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

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

The free software hiring advantage

Embrace technical debt

Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Startup Resources

On deployment

Waves of technology platforms

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

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving Foreign Policy Challenges with the Lean LaunchPad

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

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