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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. war planners thought about a future war with Japan. Unfortunately for us Japan didn’t adhere to our war plan. The Hedge Strategy – Create “the small, the agile, and the many”. War Plan Orange. In the 1930s U.S.

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Where Does Your Software Company Go From Here?

ReadWriteStart

Creating a well-designed product that’s a hit with users takes a lot of hard work, not to mention a little strategy and luck. If you’re not already, adopt an agile methodology not only for software development, but also for communication improvements. In Japan, a large segment of companies has been in business for more than 100 years.

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

Steve Blank

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours. So, the question is: What’s next?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death.

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