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Developing Strong Product Owners

SVPG

Process Skills: Customer Discovery Process (7) - Customer discovery includes customer interviewing skills, opportunity assessments and understanding of customer development programs. Product Development Process (7) - Does the product owner have a deep understanding of the product development process (e.g.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g., Our model at Casual Corp.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process. “I

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process. “I

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

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. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.