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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

First, I really find it hard to imagine a circa 2009 web start-up that doesn't start with a huge technical date. Absurdly, it works both for start-ups that are thinking structuraly about customer discovery (and hence want to experiment first, and design nicely second) and for start-ups that still follow the good old product dev.

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments.

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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. So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. Jason: get into customer development and it’s a big waste.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.