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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. " And, as I tried to outline in the article, process improvements that reduce overall batch size might be a better choice. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said. Things like "where is the design time?"

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” 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. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it.

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