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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning. Why it Can Work Outside of Software Development.

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

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

I am part of a mastermind group of 4 entrepreneurs. ” As the only technical founder of the group, I could offer some suggestions regarding the software development aspect. In the software development world, you can look at techniques like the Planning Poker. Development. Internal product demos.

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How to manage technical and creative people when you’re in-between the two

The Next Web

Talking scrum to creative won’t work as well as to developers. The great design firm IDEO has the likes of structural engineers working side-by-side with journalists, software developers and surgeons to produce the next generation shopping cart. Entrepreneur Insider How-To''s' Revel in the in-between.

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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. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Leonardo Da Vinci noted that: "Simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication".

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

David Teten

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

To begin with, see if you can get designers, programmers, and QA on the same team together. The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.