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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. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager". Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

This article is a guest post by Jeff Gothelf, Director of User Experience at TheLadders in New York City. TheLadders is an eight-year-old company based out of New York City focusing on the $100k+ employment market (both jobseekers and recruiters).

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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!)

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Thanks for an awesome article the upcoming Vancouver and workshop events look amazing April 9, 2009 9:03 PM Andrew Meyer said. I have been using various forms of Agile development -- mainly XP and Scrum -- for many years, but only recently came across "customer development" which makes a whole lot of sense to me. The slides look great.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Article: Behind Every Great Product. If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric, Great article - provides context and vocabulary for dialog on a very interesting tension in startups. Excellent article. " And, as I tried to outline in the article, process improvements that reduce overall batch size might be a better choice. " [link] July 29, 2009 10:18 AM David Draper said.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. Insightful post, as always Dave (2010-06-19) # Fortuitous that I should read your article now as its given me some great pointers and refreshers on things I (should) already know. Alex Kharlamov (2010-06-19) # Hi Derek, Thats a great article.