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How to Solve Problems in Your Business: Kanban, Kaizen and Scrum

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See Also: From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Kanban: a method used to control production. The word kanban means “signboard” or “billboard” in Japanese, and it’s a concept most commonly applied to “lean” or “just in time” production.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Nice write-up.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. In a startup, we should take full advantage of our options, even if they feel dirty or riddled with technical debt. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. 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.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Startups and Enterprises. agile software development. (46). product management. (23). software development. (47). startup cto. (18). web development. (12). 10 Things Enterprise CIOs can learn from Startups.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

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. And still being a startup means continuing to innovate as well as keep the lights on.