Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups? Possibly even more interesting is the rapidly growing data sources.

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APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Do not fall into the trap of Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Thank you so much!)

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Data Warehousing, Database Administration, Game Development, Git, Google Maps API, HTML, HTML5, Internet Security, Javascript, jQuery / Prototype, Magento, Mobile App Testing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2016

His description of the daily meeting at Agile Software Development is simple: ‘The whole team meets every day for a quick status update. This is a good way to make sure the meeting stays short, promote a team atmosphere and preventing anyone getting distracted by their emails. Watch Merchant’s TED talk on the topic here.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking. Good stuff.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. In-house development gives you more day-to-day control, and lean software development is far more feasible. Image credit: Kzenon / Shutterstock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May. Want to learn more about me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

10 Tips To Improve Email Marketing – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. Joel’s Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Agile Development. Communicate App Services : pre-built communication services that can be configured and composed to extend existing applications or build completely new ones Examples : Amazon Simple Email Service , force.com , AppXpress , GT Nexus , Mendix App Services , MuleSoft Anypoint connectors. Agile Development (6).

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Agile VC

JANUARY 31, 2013

quick emails), etc. Developers already have to think about smartphones and tablets distinctly just as they think about platforms (iOS, Android, etc) distinctly. A bad ecosystem outcome is if small tablets create yet another class of experience that software developers have to consider.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youd like to give feedback, feel free to post comments here, or get in touch on LinkedIn , Facebook , or try to beat the spam filter on email. Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Smoke tests are specifically designed to be run quickly and frequently during the software development stages. This type of agile thinking is what matters. Of course, if the Pijon Box team had taken this route, they would’ve spent a month on development and missed the end of April deadline for the last box.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

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. Please email me if you are interested. We meet the 3rd Thursday each month at SAP in Palo Alto.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 8, 2010

If you want to add your site to the queue, email me at rob -at- softwarebyrob dot com. Follow Me on Twitter @robwalling Subscribe via Email Receive very occasional emails when I publish a new article. Add it to Hacker News , Reddit , Digg , or another place where startups and web entrepreneurs hang out.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 6, 2010

I’m going to email you directly to get a better idea of what someone might be looking for in a premium review. Follow Me on Twitter @robwalling Subscribe via Email Receive very occasional emails when I publish a new article. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Product Development Diagram 1. BPM vendor (every software vendor!) Where Are the Customers? Now In Print!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, I asked him to reserve a seat or two for blog readers; if youre interested in coming to the event, you need to email him directly and explain why you want to be there. As usual, if youre a reader, please come say hello - and bring your questions.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. Why do software developers think this is acceptable? June 22, 2009 10:07 AM Khris said. Thanks for this.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. the  Amazon Simple Email Service ), and store app services (e.g. Image 7 â??

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Running the “Agile&# Board. Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

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. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on? But that doesn’t mean that we don’t take these ideas seriously.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on. Once you have scale, you can think about building your own sales force. PR/Marketing. Start a blog.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. He and I have had some interesting email threads on exactly that issue.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2017

Xerox, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and other market leaders lost to smaller, more agile competitors because the market leaders assumed that they would dominate forever. Historically, designers and writers could register with only their email and they could work on any project on crowdSPRING. We were wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. There is a dark side to naming.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. But the number one question you need to think about when going after this Agile Business approach: At what point is it worth spending the time to truly automate this? Follow Me on Twitter @robwalling Subscribe via Email Receive very occasional emails when I publish a new article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. I am not a developer. But it worked. We made it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, February 28, 2009 Throwing away working code Lean startups work by systematically eradicating waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. However, a commitment to quality alone is not enough. Expo SF (May.

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