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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? August 31, 2009 9:17 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

” This note discusses the technique that I use and advocate for providing a framework for ongoing skills assessment and development. I have always called this a development plan, but for some companies that term is used for when you have a problem employee that must improve.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). Web Development Tools. open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. open source framework for app development.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool. It’s more reference material.