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In a tech startup, how to improve the quality of your product

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Planning Poker is a technique recommended as part of the broader SCRUM software development framework. If you are not using SCRUM, I highly recommend using it as your baseline. One simple and relatively cheap thing you can do to reduce the bugs that make it to the live product is to hire a manual QA tester. Development.

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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. Ive had at least three conversations this week about the relationship between agile methodologies and customer development. Just a thought.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. It’s my preferred alternative to Basecamp, which for for me is really only good at allowing you to converse with others related to a specific project. This tool will suit a wide variety of businesses.

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. We loved this discussion and mutual support so much that we brought together a close group of friends, quarterly, for a long, candid conversation about our lives, our aspirations, and how we can make progress.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

The stories he told me during our conversation, somber as they are, show the truth of that belief. You can listen to our conversation on Apple podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever you like to download. Here's my conversation with Carl Liebert. He shared his reflections on why these approaches work. It's member-owned.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. Hire those you trust. Entire conversations would take place when the CTO and I were in China whilst the CMO/designer was left to catch up hours later through chat or a rehashed conversation.