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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. Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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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. The lean manufacturing guys call this visual control and its very powerful. 1 comments: Josh Moore said.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. A similar relationship applies to technical debt.

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Startup Resources

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Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. Lean project management. SW Courses.