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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. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

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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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Simply put, we upload all the tasks and assign a name to each task. 1 comments: Josh Moore said.

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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. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. Wow, that’s a good name.

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