Product Managers, Agile or otherwise, are asked to create a fair number of documents. benefits of product often expressed in ROI). My point is that even the most minimalistic approach to Product Management has a Product Manager creating a fairly large number of documents. Guest post by Luke Hohmann of Enthiosys. MORE >>

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers. MORE >>

Home About Me SUBSCRIBE TO THIS BLOG ash maurya Practice Trumps Theory: Lean Startup + Customer Development + Bootstrap 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup April 14, 2010 Share Validated learning about customers is the measure of progress in a Lean Startup – not lines of working code or achieving product development milestones. MORE >>

This post describes a solution – the  Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how  Eric Ries and the  Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development  activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. It rarely happens that way.) MORE >>

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Both are lethal outcomes. MORE >>