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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. 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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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
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?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline. This was a huge win (and we were delighted to give credit where it was due), because it allowed our initial products to get to market much faster. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
blader : @ericries my #1 takeaway from #leanstartup : "No marketing team. So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." Metrics are a key questions startups face. No engineering team.
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