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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Feld Thoughts

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Most important slide: live demo Prototype product Key questions: what will it take to ship a working product? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

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Kiwi lean startup + Australia next

Startup Lessons Learned

Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. Their supposed lack of ambition was belied by the many cool demos and startups I got to meet. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. In fact, you have to learn to adjust to the humility. Expo SF (May.

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