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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Its by far the hardest part of the puzzle of shipping successful products and both recommend that you get a customer in the room and ask them to clarify what they want as you go. Labels: customer development , product development 8comments: Sarah Milstein said.

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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

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Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. Please leave feedback!) Do you have a spec?

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Developing Strong Product Owners

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In my last article I discussed the role of the leader of the product organization. Your company needs the strongest product team possible, and if you don’t develop your team and provide growth opportunities, there are other companies that will. Is he fully utilizing his project manager/ScrumMaster?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Metrics are people too" is a reminder I constantly needed when I was a manager. Thanks for an awesome article the upcoming Vancouver and workshop events look amazing April 9, 2009 9:03 PM Andrew Meyer said. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Labels: slides 7comments: Hazem Awad said.

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Startup Tools

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signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.