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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir. His nickname is Tank and I wouldn’t have minded having him as a teammate in my rugby playing days either, holding me up in the scrum!

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? – Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. When its receding, we rescope. Do you have a spec?

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Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development

SoCal CTO

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. A great post , Joe Little starts with acknowledging that Scrum and Agile proponents often downplay upfront planning. They couldn't plan their business.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

startup cto. (18). Strategic Technology. No Scrum Master? about me. (26). agile software development. (46). business exchange. (11). cloud computing. (4). content agility. (5). crisis management. (3). customer service. (3). enterprise 2.0. (9). in the news. (21). innovation. (33). it management. (27). media and publishing. (6).

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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. reflected David Kidder during his interview of Procter & Gamble CTO Kathy Fish. We tried to define the best for us, and then we started practicing.”

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