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How to build an agile and scalable SaaS for long-term success

The Next Web

James Kenigsberg is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding team member at 2U , an educational technology company that partners with universities to offer online degree programs. By doing so, we demystify the online education experience and use our technology to empower the students enrolled in our partner programs. .

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on the Mainframe Market

The Startup Magazine

The main challenge here is that most of the professionals that are proficient in mainframe applications and programming are getting on in years and probably about to exit the workforce soon. This allows businesses to leverage new technologies and use popular open source tools with mainframe-oriented languages and automation services.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So No more, no less. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Cloud Is The New Black

YoungUpstarts

He has experience on SAP solutions, Google technologies, open source programming languages and agile development methods, and focuses on innovation for products, services and business models for clients in many areas. The other areas don’t.

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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?