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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Process Versus Product. In government agencies process versus product has gone further.

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5 Types Of Business Strategies To Consider Before Opening Up Shop

YoungUpstarts

One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint. Best of all, Scrum helps teams remain agile by encouraging flexibility in your workflow.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies. The answer is that, yes, government agencies need to be more agile.

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Where Does Your Software Company Go From Here?

ReadWriteStart

If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. There’s a reason 70% of all acquisitions fail : When leaders feel pressure to grow for growth’s sake, their focus on results (no matter the cost) isn’t sustainable in the long run.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. But it lacked a framework for testing all commercialization hypotheses outside of the building.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link].