Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Ive had at least three conversations this week about the relationship between agile methodologies and customer development. Just a thought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. Here's my conversation with Carl Liebert. He shared his reflections on why these approaches work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. It does a lot more than that now, but that’s where the name came from.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

So far, this is all an academic exercise in naming - but I think it has an important real-world effect. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Imagine the architect of a cathedral trying to make sense of this distinction. They'd think we were crazy.

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