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

Startup Lessons Learned

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right. Amazon PostRank

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

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Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. These are tricky but important details.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest'). Amazon PostRank