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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No more, no less.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. So the team got to work.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Most technology companies hit a wall with dev team scalability somewhere around ten developers. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Ad Serving Technology. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next?

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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.

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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. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development.