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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. Instead, techniques like Five Whys teach us to view the entire application and product development team as one integrated system. Side-effects that reduce agility are the most damaging symptoms of technical debt.

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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. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.