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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. But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. Less is more.

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

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decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant. Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. No Scrum Master? ► 2008. (21).

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. The results were that the Israeli system became operational 10 years ago, while the THAAD project is starting to finally be deployed this year after 10 years of delay. pay 'interest').

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development. dalelarson : "Metrics are people, too." leanstartup ericnsantos : #w2e #leanstartup Metrics should be Actionable, Accessible and Auditable. Metrics are a key questions startups face.

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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. I want to focus here on one particular strength: the ability to operate semi-autonomously.