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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. 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.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
We did our best to keep the runtime of the tests short (10 minutes was our target), and we always treated a failing test as a serious event (generally, you couldnt check in at all if a test was failing). There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Do you have a bug database?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. In the event there is an irreconcilable difference between Chief Engineer and function head, the issue can be elevated to a very high level, but apparently this doesn’t happen.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
I think that if a web founder would come to me asking for an investment talking about how he's coding an immensly scalable, perfectly designed system, I will throw him out in an instant. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. path hence urgently pushing to release asap.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
Thank you all so much for making the event an overwhelming success (way beyond my wildest expectations) and a special thanks to all of you who have reached out to share your feedback, comments, and questions since then. sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm.
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