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

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. hey eric, love the blog. Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup at Scale

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One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. Week 0 - New Feature 1 - Software engineers are busy building brand new features.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

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The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Does their personality bring something new?

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Theoretically, i can visualize the Continuous Integration as RAD ( Rapid action development) along with iterative method, which we used to study in Software Engineering's Process model. This will help me improving me my work skills in term of coding and designing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.