The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

The business development team needs to see the customer feedback they deliver make it back into the product, and the tech team needs to see reasonable requests to develop new features without a constant stream of changing direction. Hire T-Shaped People. Make sure to hire T-shaped individuals. . - Phil Chen , Givit. Build Trust.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. But, over the years I’ve realized that the toughest problem - the one that matters most and was consistently the most challenging - was figuring out what the product backlog should be.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Putting the product/service on the market early. Adding to product/service in small, frequent iterations. The first factor when deciding how agile your startup should be is what kind of a company it is, in which industry it is and what kind of a product or service you will be offering to your customers. Improved adaptability.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To help you prep, I’ve collated a list of tools—for both web and mobile devices—that have helped me and others get things done, save time, and work more productively. Use it to manage the hiring process, to keep track of investment and fundraising projects, to manage deals, and much more. Don’t have a website or blog? canva.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You've built up some kind of a relationship over time--because recruiting (as opposed to hiring ) is a long term game. They're not going to be overly managed by a million product managers, project managers, etc., They'll be able to contribute to product ideas, not just execute yours. who can't get on the same page.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

Culture bleeds right into our product, our relationships with customers, and our potential impact on the world. We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. Hiring: We look for people oriented towards (even obsessed with) learning and growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Do you have a spec?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. 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. No more, no less.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. While working on a release, we made sure we are building their skills in all possible roles (Dev, QA, Product Owner, Technical writers etc.). Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

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SVPG

MARCH 10, 2016

For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. about what their function needs to do to fully support the product.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Well, you may say, if my business, my industry, my product was as exciting as theirs, then I would be more enthusiastic too! Like Uber raising $8.7 billion over 7 years. Or Airbnb raising $2.3 billion over 8.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Business owners report that their biggest concern with distributed teams is lower levels of productivity. As a part of Bloom and Liang’s research on productivity and telecommuting, the staff at Ctrip’s call center was split into two groups. Distributed teams allow companies to hire better employees. There is however, much more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product.

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

I think today that one of my most useful skills is that after 30 years of working with technology product teams, I am pretty good at spotting talent and potential. I love seeing them creating exceptional products, and leading great organizations of their own. I believe in giving back. I believe in continuous improvement.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. Hire those you trust. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up. legal issues.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Lets start with the most important thing you can do to help product teams succeed: make them cross-functional.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Jonathan: Yeah, demand based pulling instead of pushing the product down the line errors and all, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system. They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

So hiring the right people is the single most important thing we do at Wooga. We believe in the mantra, “If in doubt, don’t hire.” Each game team is led by a product lead that has the final decision for the team. Teams decide on their own how to do things, although they usually blend in elements of Scrum and/or Kanban.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

But that team may also include product marketers or other in-house customers who can give insight into the impact that solution trade-offs might have on customers. Its not good enough to hit product milestones and conduct usability tests. Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

A full copy of the state of the entire company and your product is easily contained within everyone’s brain. At this stage, you’re trying to create and vet your minimum viable product, which is a fancy way of saying that you’re trying to figure out what you’re even doing here. Stage 2: The first hires.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Ryan: So, the question that I had, I was kind of thinking about this, is right now we’re moving from being a free product, so our goal is to get people in the door, and learn from them and get some feedback, see how to use it. You can simply discriminate.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

To execute effectively on your product marketing strategy , marketing and sales need to operate as one unit. Do this by creating Scrum-style squads with individual contributors from each department working together on specified accounts. When launching a new product , account-based marketing has two strong cards to play.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. find/hire freelancers.

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