YoungUpstarts
MARCH 5, 2015
by Rob Bellenfant, founder and CEO of TechnologyAdvice. Many project management frameworks are rooted in agile, such as scrum, kanban, lean, and extreme programming (XP). Agile methodology typically breaks projects down into smaller increments to be worked on in short time frames (“sprints,” if you’re using scrum).
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Consider the classic project that was essential to the creation of extreme programming , the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System. Just a thought.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So 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. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Amazon PostRank
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? for Harvard Business Revie.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 2, 2011
Your dev environment (pair programming, silo, etc) matches with how their brain works. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). They believe in you, the founder. They're not going to be overly managed by a million product managers, project managers, etc., who can't get on the same page.
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