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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This is a common mistake.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

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Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. But its helpful to take a detailed look inside the highly agile process used by Google to ship software. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

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It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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Best of luck, Your Software." (OK, I picked up on the 5 whys from Joel on Software earlier this year. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Good stuff.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

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The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. For now, Id like to ask a favor. It was a disaster.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Freemium or subscription or advertising? Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Freemium or subscription or advertising?