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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Practice Agile Development. We practice agile development principles, and having the constant feedback between business and development that agile suggests is key to successful integration of the two teams. Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Lean Startups need to make snap decisions, iterate quickly and pivot when needed. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. Be very outcome-driven in the world we're going to.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Boys and girls ages 11 -14 pitched ideas on Monday and then worked through the week to pitch their Minimum Viable Products to VCs on Friday — StartUp Weekend style. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Scrum boards are a huge success for kid teams.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0