Remove Continuous Deployment Remove Customer Development Remove Sales Remove SCRUM
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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. One last thought. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.