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.

Agile 111

Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

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 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.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. Achieving 2X in Speed To Market Using Agile Platfo. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs. Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs.

Agile 40

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers 40

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.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2011

You can pay at or above market rate, which is already pretty high right now. Your dev environment (pair programming, silo, etc) matches with how their brain works. You have development practices in place (Agile, Scrum, test driven, etc). You have clear product goals in relationship to who you want to be in your market.

Hiring 144

Hiring SCRUM Agile Open Source 144

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. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College. Several Federal jobs training programs are focusing on these efforts. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

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. . … Let's see what works well, what doesn't work well for us, for our organization, for our culture.’ We tried to define the best for us, and then we started practicing.”

Lean 245

Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

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.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2015

So today really, when you think about my journey six, seven years now, I was truly honored to be able to work for companies like [inaudible 00:02:43] com, kind of incubating their global personalization and behavioral targeting program from baby to seed to be successful. Same thing with AB testing program. First thing is, goal.

Video 48

Video Analytics SCRUM Metrics 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

A precise understanding of account-based marketing fuels the success of brands like DocuSign, Dialpad, and LiveRamp. These businesses have driven millions in ARR by diverting the focus from spray-and-pray marketing methods to targeting (and landing) bigger, better-fit accounts.

Marketing 100

Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. We all have this tendency to pull back our investment dollars in a crisis like this, the market's crash, we're afraid, so we make less investment. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

San Francisco 74

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 74

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. But how do I actually organize my team so that we actually do it day-in day-out?" No engineering team. This is my take on that idea.

San Francisco 132

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean Agile 132

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 . That’s what we call on contemporary times is, “pull,” the market pull.

SCRUM 60

SCRUM Agile Employee Small Business 60

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. It was only $60M vs. Windows which at that point was more than a $1B market.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

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. We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 68

adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. In programming, when a class or sourcefile gets to big, the solution is to break it down into smaller pieces. Separately, you should have found your product/market fit by this point. Don’t do that stuff.

Developer 92

Developer Database Architecture API 92

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

by Will Koffel , head of the Google Cloud Startup Program in the Americas. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology. Numerous collaboration tools are on the market, and they exist for a good reason.

Management 138

Management Product SCRUM Early Stage 138

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. You sound like a great client to deal with for a programming company. Bless you, chile!

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53