article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. Both Scrum and XP had a role which you could happily call by the modern title "Product Manager".

Agile 111
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Great blog! Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. No more, no less. Good stuff.

Lean 168
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. Scrum recommends 30 days; I have worked in one or two-week cycles up to about three months. At IMVU, we found 60 days was just about right.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Answering that question is what Im striving to do on this blog (and at future webcasts and workshops ). Loved your W2E talk and included it in my Girls in Tech blog as the #1 session at W2E! Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. No engineering team. Thanks for sharing Eric.

article thumbnail

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

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

article thumbnail

You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.