article thumbnail

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. 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. Excellent post.

article thumbnail

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Startups For Sale. SnapEngage â?? live chat integrates with your apps. Zendesk â??