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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. More to come.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). 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.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. 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.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

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The inimitable Paul Graham has an excellent essay called The Python Paradox in which he argues: that you could get smarter programmers to work on a Python project than you could to work on a Java project. I didnt mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

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Remember Java? 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? . New market - this is like applying to a company that does not have an open req for programmers.

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Startup Resources

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Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management.