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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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Selecting An Agile Coach

SVPG

Starting around 2004 and 2005 I began seeing an increasing number of teams moving to Agile, and of course the first thing they needed was training and often some coaching. So it''s no wonder that so many Agile trainers are bewildered by commercial product companies. I should have written this article many years ago.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. So we ( Blank , Reis , Osterwalder ) built the tools and created a new language for innovation and modern entrepreneurship.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

Customer and Agile Development (and the Lean Startup ) may be the emerging methodologies large companies need to build innovative new products. Customer and Agile Development may be the methodologies that large companies need to build innovative new products. More in future posts. Lessons Learned.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I can’t remember if Ryan used the word Agile at that time, but I remember scribbles on a white board that listed out all the different software that Ryan had used at BEA to manage his dev team and how maddening it was to try to integrate information in Word, Excel, Project, a dev workbench, a set of testing tools, and the support / QA system.

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Stop Starting, Start Finishing with Agile

ReadWriteStart

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams. The four Agile values, defined in the Agile Manifesto, deliver value to the customer, responsiveness to change, effective communication, and people centricity.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Back in 2004 when Eric and his IMVU co-founder Will Harvey approached me about investing in IMVU, I agreed on one condition – they had to take my Customer Development class at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Taking My Class.

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